At 77 years of age, Barbara passed away on Saturday February 25
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after a short period of declining health. She has been receiving supportive care as a resident at Eastpointe Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Chelsea for the past 4 years. Born and raised in Newton. She was the beloved daughter of the late Frank P. and Frances (Caruso) Gigliotti. Barbara attended Newton public schools and was graduated from Newton High School. She was married to Chelsea native Henry J. "Harry" Brown. They first settled in Chelsea before moving to Revere to raise their family of one daughter and two sons. Barbara was widowed in her early thirties with the sudden passing of her beloved husband Harry. She worked outside of her home with a large transportation company as a school bus driver working mostly on the North-shore driving various students for public and private schools. Barbara remarried for a time to George R. Swankowski. She relocated to Davenport FL in the late eighties to care for her aging parents. While in Florida she also worked in nursing facilities and a motor freight company and lastly as a Florida state toll collector. She returned to Chelsea 12 years ago and resided in the Admirals Tower Apartments for several years before leaving for Eastpointe. In her life time her love was family, her grandson and home, quietly enjoying reading or watching the Bruins and Red Sox games on television. In addition to her parents and husband Harry, Barbara was also preceded in death by three brothers; Anthony, Thomas and Francis Gigliotti, and her second husband George R. Swankowski. She is survived by her loving and devoted children; Robin M. Surette and her husband Roger J. of Manchester NH, Robert H. Brown of NH and Michael F. Brown and his wife Jessie E. of Cumberland RI. She was the cherished grandmother of Henry R. Brown, at home in Cumberland and Roger and France Surette, and Christine and Junior Allain, great-grandmother to MarcAlexandre and Fredrick Surette, Manon, Mylene, Maika and Monette Allain all of Canada. She is also the dear sister of Paul Gigliotti and his wife Yvonne of Bridgewater.
ARRANGEMENTS: Visiting Hours will be held at the Frank A. Welsh & Sons Funeral Home 718 Broadway CHELSEA on Thursday March 2
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from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Relatives and friends are most kindly invited to attend. Funeral from the Welsh Funeral Home on Friday at 9:30 A.M. followed by a Funeral Mass of Christian Burial at the Immaculate Conception Church 133 Beach St., Revere at 10:30 A.M. Services will conclude with Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett. Funeral Home fully handicap accessible, ample parking opposite Funeral Home.
