Diane Barrie

Diane Barrie Obituary

Diane Antonina Barrie, 88, passed away peacefully, with her devoted husband Jim by her side, on November 4, 2025, at Morningstar Senior Living Memory Care in Lone Tree, Colorado.

Diane lived an extraordinary life full of love and adventure. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, on January 30, 1937, to Harriet and Paul Erengis. She was the third oldest of six children. Diane was a tomboy as a child and had always been very independent with an adventurous spirit.

After graduation from Alvernia all girls Catholic high school at the age of 18, that sense of adventure took her on a road trip across the country with girlfriends to California, where she took a job at Yosemite National Park. She eventually settled in Los Angeles, graduated from UCLA with a degree in education, and was active in the young adult club at her local Catholic church where she had many friends and met the love of her life, Jim (James) Barrie. They married in June of 1967, and moved to Torrance, California, where they would raise their three children, Debbie, Jeffrey, and Jennifer, and live for over 40 years.

Diane enjoyed a wide variety of interests and hobbies. She enjoyed baking and was known for the wide assortment of Christmas cookies she faithfully baked every year, and her pies, which are family favorites. She loved the beach, the mountains, camping, fishing, traveling, and horseback riding. Diane and Jim especially enjoyed fishing together at their cabin in the Sierra Nevada mountains. She also had a love of the arts, including movies, theater, and music, and she volunteered at a nearby performing arts center in Southern California as an usher and was able to enjoy the theater performances at the same time. She played guitar and ukulele, was in a ukulele group for many years, and sang in the church choir. She was also a huge fan of Judy Garland her entire life, starting at the age of four when her older brother George took her to see her first movie, “The Wizard of Oz,” in a theater in Chicago.

In 2010, Diane and Jim embarked on one final big adventure with a move to Castle Rock, Colorado, another western state she dreamt of living to be near their oldest daughter and her family. During her years in Colorado, she enjoyed attending many of her three grandsons’ activities, going to fitness classes and movies, playing and singing in an ukulele group, biking, walking at local parks, and even taking up bowling with Jim.

Diane is preceded in death by her parents, her brother George, and sisters Judy and Kathy. She is survived by her husband of 58 years, Jim; children, Debbie (John) Faragallah, Jeffrey Barrie, and Jennifer Barrie; grandsons Tyler, Aaron, and Tristan Faragallah; granddaughters Lily and Antonina Barrie; sisters Beth (Chris) Kalamatas and Christine Morley.

A celebration of life service will be held at Morningstar Senior Living in Lone Tree, Colorado at 2:00 pm on January 31, 2026. Burial will be at a later date in Turton, South Dakota.

In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the Alzheimer’s Association: https://www.alz.org/