Elizabeth B. Barrett Gilpatrick

Elizabeth B. Gilpatrick, daughter of the late Robert S. Barrett, Sr. and Ruby Brewer Barrett and sister of the late Robert S. Barrett, Jr. died May 19, 2015. Her father, Robert S. Barrett, Sr. played major league baseball for the Chicago Cubs, the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Red Sox; her mother, Ruby Barrett was the first lady detective on the Atlanta Police Department. Elizabeth worked in the offices of John Lewis and Hosea Williams and the City Council of Atlanta. She was a city of Atlanta Tennis Champion for 3 years. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 12 (noon) at Patterson’s Spring Hill. Interment will follow at Westview Cemetery. Family and friends will be received at 11 o’clock. “To laugh often and much…to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life had breathed easier because you have lived, This is to have succeeded.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson). Online condolences may be made at hmpattersonspringhill.com.