Classy lady, Effi Barry

Effi Barry, the District of Columbia’s stoic former first lady who endured her husband’s drug abuse and unfaithfulness during his years as the city’s mayor, died Thursday. She was 63.Barry died of leukemia at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md., said Justin Paquette, a spokesman for the hospital.Effi Barry separated from Marion Barry in 1990, shortly after he was caught on videotape at a downtown hotel smoking crack cocaine with an ex-model and asking her to have sex with him.Throughout her husband’s three-month trial — during which federal prosecutors played the grainy 83-minute tape of the FBI sting — Barry sat in the front row of the courtroom with a hook and yarn. Source

I was sad to hear about Ms. Barry. She was always an elegant, very softspoken and feminine “lady”. She was very genteel.

One cannot help but wonder why and how such classy ladies oftentimes end up married to jerks such as Marion Barry, the crack pipe lover.

She certainly deserved better and I hope that her life after divorcing that clown was much happier.