Barbara Boland Foti, 69

LEWES - Barbara Boland Foti of Lewes passed away Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007, at her home. She was 69.

She was born Aug. 17, 1937, to the late Eleanor Stout Boland and William Boland.

Barbara was raised in Gaithersburg, Md., and graduated from the Academy of Holy Names, Silver Spring, Md., and St. Joseph"s College, Emmitsburg, Md.

She taught at Goldey Beacom College in Delaware, Montgomery County Public School"s Adult Education Department in Maryland, and in federal and county governments in the Washington, D.C., area.

Barbara taught business subjects at Washington Business School, Rockville, Md., and Vienna, Va., and was Dean of Students at Washington Business School for 11 years.

She was also Dean of Secretarial Studies for the Katharine Gibbs School in Rockville for five years, where she implemented a student success program used in all the Gibbs Schools.

Combining her love for teaching with administration, Barbara felt strongly about helping her students develop their potential to become the best they could be.

She received the Virginia Association of Private Career Schools Award for Teacher of the Year in 1991 and VAPCS Distinguished Service Award in 1994.

After retiring to Lewes in 2000, Barbara volunteered at Beebe Medical Center, worked as bulletin editor for St. Jude The Apostle Church, and served as secretary of the Liturgy Committee, a lector, a eucharistic minister and a hospital minister to the sick.

She also facilitated a program for separated and divorced Catholics.

Barbara is survived by three daughters, Linda Daugherty and her husband, John and their four children, Andrew, Lauren, Chris, and Katie of Virginia Beach, Va., Lisa Creamer and her husband, Sean and their three children, Kevin, Ryan, and Colleen of Olney, Md., and Laurie Ferguson and her husband, Andy and their son, Garrett of Keyser, W.Va.; her fiance, David Vaughn of Rehoboth Beach; her sister, Susan Southwell of Germantown, Md.; a niece; two nephews; and dear family and friends.

A viewing will be from 7-9 p.m. Thursday in Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium, Atkins-Lodge Chapel, 16961 Kings Highway, Lewes, and again from 10-11 a.m. Friday at the church prior to Mass.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Friday at St. Jude The Apostle Church, Del. 1, north of Five Points, Lewes.

A private burial will take place in Beallsville, Md.

The family requests that donations be made to St. Jude The Apostle Building Fund, 152 Tulip Lane, Lewes, DE 19958.