Barbara A. DiVito

Barbara A. (Ware) DiVito, passed away peacefully on Saturday November 22, 2025. She was 96. Barbara was born in Dorchester in 1929 to Alton E. and Mary Alice (Essency) Ware and was the youngest of seven children. Prior to her marriage to Nunzie in 1957, Barbara worked for AT&T in Boston. She then settled in Hull where she raised her family and was very active in the Church. Barbara and Nunzie first met at a dance and continued taking lessons and dancing throughout their marriage – first Ballroom, then Line Dancing, Country & Western and Square Dancing. She was a supportive wife and mother, attending school events, hosting dinners and parties, running a Cub Scout den, and managing the paperwork for the family’s rental properties. She had great faith in the Catholic Church. She taught religious ed classes and was a Eucharistic Minister. She attended daily Mass, bible study groups and sang in the choir up until her last week. If she couldn’t get to Mass, she would watch on the computer.

She always made time for others – babysitting, giving people rides to Church, calling people and writing letters. For any occasion she was the first to write a thank-you note. Nobody’s birthday ever went by without a card.

Barbara was the beloved wife of the late Nazzareno DiVito, Jr. Devoted mother of John DiVito and his wife Donna (French) and Michael DiVito and his wife Marie (Prestera). Cherished Grandma of Ian Maguire and his wife Caitlin, Christina DiVito and her husband Hyungrae Kim, Annnalisa DiVito and her husband Frank Gao and Sara DiVito; great grandma to Ellie, Liam and Ren. Loving sister of Irene Duff (Ware) of Dorchester. Barbara was predeceased by brother Raymond and his wife Olga “Babe” (Lammers), sister Beverly (Herlihy) and her husband Joseph, brother Paul and his wife Dorothy (Devine), brother John and his wife Mary, and sister Alice (Gillon) and her husband John.

The DiVito family also wishes to acknowledge the kind and compassionate care Barbara received during her time at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth.

Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend visiting hours on Friday, Nov. 28th from 2-6 PM in the Pyne Keohane Funeral Home, 21 Emerald St. (off Central St.), HINGHAM.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held in the funeral home at 9:30 AM on Saturday, Nov. 29th prior to the Funeral Mass in St. Mary’s Parish in St. Ann’s Church, Hull at 10:30 AM.

Burial in Hull Village Cemetery, Hull.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to St. Mary of the Assumption Parish, 208 Samoset Ave., Hull, MA 02045.