Obituary of Margaret Rea

Margaret Burns Rea, age 79, of Stratford , a retired bookkeeper for Transfashion Industries, died on Friday, July 15, 2005 in Bridgeport Hospital. Born in Bridgeport on May 12, 1926, she was a daughter of the late Frank and Catherine Buckley Burns, and was a Stratford resident for many years. She was the widow of Patsy D. Rea.

Survivors include two daughters, Ann Orgel and Patricia Nettleton and her husband Mark, all of Stratford, a son, Mark K. Rea and his wife Elizabeth, of Pinehurst, NC, a brother, James Burns of Melbourne, Fl, a sister, Frances Coates of Virginia, seven grandchildren, Rachael and Benjamin Orgel, Matthew Patsy, David and Paul Nettleton, John and Caroline Rea, many nieces and nephews. 

Funeral services will take place on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 at 9:30 a.m. from the Abriola Parkview Funeral Home, 419 White Plains Road, Trumbull, and at 10:30 a.m. in St. Mark Church, Stratford for a Mass of Christian Burial. Interment will follow in St. Michael Cemetery, Stratford. Friends may call on Monday from 4-8 p.m. 

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the St. Josephs Indian School, Chamberlain, SD 57326.