Mollie Barrett visiting Darien CT + nephew Billy Barrett

Mollie Barrett with nephew William Joel Barrett - l940's Darien, Connecticut.p4-31

After Bill Barrett's second wife Virginia (Brady) died of cancer May l945, Mollie Barrett was a frequent visitor weekends at Bill's home in Darien. Virginia's mother Mrs. Brady lived with the Barretts at Darien much of the time also until she passed away of diabetes about l953. Bill and Mollie were always very close, as children, looking after elderly parents, keeeping in touch with their Lane cousins, so they enjoyed being together apart from the help Mollie was able to give around the house to Bill, a busy executive at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, with an hour's train commute each morning and evening and considerable travel for conferences and public relations in his work. Katherine Kinnaly and other Boston friends sometimes traveled with Mollie on weekends. Mollie was very fond of her brother and his nephew Bill.