Martha Ann Barry

MARTHA ANN BARRY

Hiawatha

Martha Ann Barry, 70, of Hiawatha, died Tuesday, April 12, 2022, at Dennis & Donna Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy. Funeral Mass:

11 a.m. Wednesday, April 20, at St. Pius X Catholic Church, where visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Burial will be at

1 p.m. Thursday at St.

Francis Catholic Cemetery in Belmond. Cedar Memorial Park Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Martha was born Dec. 18, 1951, in Belmond, the daughter of Raymond and Helen (Harbacheck) Barry. Martha graduated from Belmond High School in 1970 and from Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids in 1974.

Martha was a passionate advocate for children and education. She taught at the elementary level at St. Lawrence Catholic School in Carroll for 25 years. She also worked for Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa in Mason City. After moving to Hiawatha, Martha tutored elementary schoolchildren. She volunteered in childcare at St. Pius X Catholic Church and served as a board member of the Catherine McAuley Center. She was active with Mt. Mercy University and she was a Mercy Associate.

Survivors include her sister, Mary Ann Barry of Hiawatha; her cousin and godson, Barry Pump of Washington, D.C.; and cousins, Michael (Dee) McCarville of Kalamazoo, Mich., Dick (Diane) McCarville of Fort Dodge, Ann (Jerry) Tennant of Sunnyvale, Calif., Jane Shima of Albuquerque, N.M., Susan (Hubert) Ludwig of Farmington, Minn., Sarah McCarville of Apple Valley, Minn., Diane Dunshee of Anthem, Ariz., and Robert (Theresa) Barry of St. Paul, Minn.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

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Memorials may be made to the Catherine McAuley Center in Cedar Rapids in memory of Martha.