Obituary of Rosalie A Murray-Barker

Rosalie Arnette Murray, the third oldest of five children, was born May18, 1959, in West Atco, NJ to Alexander and Beatrice Murray. Rosalie was educated in the Pine Hill Public School System where she graduated from Overbook high School in 1977. After graduating from high school, she attended Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, New Jersey where she majored in Sociology and Criminal Justice and received her Bachelors degree May of 1983. At an early age, Rosalie accepted Christ and became a member of Mt. Carmel Holiness Church in Albion, New Jersey, under the leadership of Bishop Roosevelt Coley. In 1985, Rosalie was employed with the State of New Jersey Division of Developmental Disabilities as an habitation plan coordinator through out the region of Somerset County. Which she served faithfully until her illness in 2013. She met and married her husband Dave Barker who preceded her in death. Rosalie had a love for shopping, reading, dancing and children: she took on the role of motherhood assisting with the raising of her great niece Monyette Murray. (Who lived with her fir a couple of years) she was a inspiration to her other nieces and nephews as well especially when it came to education. Chris was inspired by Rosalie words of wisdom. Bernard Frazier was a young man Rosalie called her adopted son she never had. He will miss her dearly. Rosalie leaves to cherish her memory of her devoted mother Beatrice Ferrell,father Alexander Murray,grandmother Rose Ellington,brother Curtis Murray, three sisters Roslyn Williams (Howard), Mary Norwood (Galen), Annette Black (Bob), there step brothers Fred, Ralph, and Anthony, two step sisters Linda and Rose, Marianne Wood friend and ghost of uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews and friends. Special sister friends: Hartel Blake (Plainfield NJ), Karen Fortune (Rahway), Pamela Williams (Virginia), Irene Jones (Virginia) Special friend: Cabrini Onyiuke (Princeton) Special Thank you to her neighborhood friends.