Feb 26, 2021 10:41 AM
Barbara Matous, beloved wife and mother, peacefully entered eternal life on Wednesday, February 24, at her home in Penn Run, Pennsylvania.
She is mourned by her husband of 55 years, George Matous, and their seven children: Gregory Matous (wife Nagla, son Ramzi); Bridgett Sanders (husband Tim, daughter Brittany); Cynthia Kramer (husband Kyle, children Eva, Clare, and Eli); Diane Matous; Catherine Sienkiewicz (husband Jeremy, children Mary, Jude, Leo, Lucy, and Genevieve); Teresa Ingraffia (husband Burke) and Anthony Matous (wife Bonnie, children Ben, Becca, Sara, and Alex).
Barbara was born on March 4, 1941, in Louisville, KY, the youngest child of Dr. Joseph Skees Parker and Mary Marcella (Hayden) Parker. As a young woman, she studied at Nazareth College in Louisville before moving to Washington, DC, to pursue a master’s in nursing at the Catholic University of America. There, at a dance for Catholic singles, she met George Matous, a newly minted doctor of