Thomas "Mike" Michael Barry

Attorney

Michael Barry, a longtime resident of Alexandria, Virginia, died on November 4, 2020 at Fairfax

Inova Hospital in Falls Church, VA. He was 81 and had Parkinson’s disease. Mr. Barry was born

in Washington, DC and grew up in the New York metropolitan area. He was a 1957

graduate of Mt. St. Michael’s Academy in the Bronx and a 1961 graduate of the College of the

Holy Cross. He later earned a masters of arts degree from Maryknoll University, a masters

degree in history from Columbia University and a law degree from the George Washington

University Law School.

When he was not engaged in his favorite hobby of traveling about the world, Mr. Barry

pursued a peripatetic professional career which included positions with the National

Association of Broadcasters, and the legal department of the MCI Corporation. For the past 30

years, until his retirement in 2019, he represented clients in cases involving domestic relations

matters in the D. C. Superior Court’s Child Abuse & Neglect Program.

He is survived by his wife, XiXi Barry, and by four siblings, Patricia B. Thorpe of

Annapolis, Md., Robert T. Barry of Clifton Park, NY, R. Joseph Barry of Laurel, MD and John

C. Barry of Arnold, MD. He was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas F. Barry and Dolores

S. Barry, and by his first wife, the former Margaret Sullivan.

Funeral arrangements are being handled by the Demaine Funeral Home in Alexandria. A

socially distanced memorial service will be held at 1:00pm, November 18th at the funeral

home, 520 S. Washington St., Alexandria VA.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in memory of Michael Barry to Nursing Stars (IFMC – 10th Flr Geriatric) Or, another Inova program.

www.inova.org/nursingstars

https://foundation.inova.org/