Attorney Robert E. Barrett, 63, of Milton, died at home April 23 after a nine-year battle against cancer.
Born in Boston, he was a 1963 graduate of Boston College High School, a 1967 graduate of Boston College and a 1970 graduate of Boston College Law School.
He entered the Army Reserve in 1969 and retired in 2005 as a lieutenant colonel.
Mr. Barrett passed the Massachusetts Bar in 1970, was sworn-in in November 1970 and practiced as an assistant attorney general from 1970 to 1974. He began his own practice in l976 at Barrett and Barrett Law Offices on Adams Street.
A resident of Milton since 1973, he was past president of the Rotary Club of Milton; a member of the Milton Hoosic Club, where he won the Nye Cup; a member of Foxfire Golf Club in Naples, Fla.; a corporator of Milton Hospital; a member of the Weymouth Tennis Club; and a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara A. (Maguire) Barrett; his children, Barbara D. Daly and her husband, James, of Holliston, Robert J. Barrett and his wife, Marykathleen, of Charlestown, and John W. Barrett, of New Orleans; his grandchildren, Dawn M. Barrett, Jane Daly, Colin Daly, Aidan Daly and Maura Barrett; and his siblings, Phyllis M. Boulter, of Marblehead, William H. Barrett, of Holbrook, Claire Gross, of Hingham, and Paul Barrett, of Brockton.
A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated in St. Elizabeth Church on April 27. Burial was in Milton Cemetery.
Donations may be made to Boston Prostate Cancer Walk, 69 Farragut Ave., Somerville, MA 02144.
Arrangements were by the Dolan Funeral Home.