Patricia Anne Barnicle Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Patricia Anne (Simmons) Barnicle Patricia Anne (Simmons) Barnicle died peacefully in her sleep on Saturday, February 19, 2022. Born January 25, 1944, Patricia was the eighth of 10 siblings and the last to be born in the family home. An East Nashville native, Patricia was a member of the first graduating class of Maplewood High School in 1962, where she played basketball on the varsity team. Patricia, affectionately known as Trish, moved to Arizona in 1976, where she met her husband of 30 years, Roger Barnicle. In addition to her distinguished career as a civil servant, Trish and her husband Roger owned and operated the Pop-A-Top Saloon in Yuma, Arizona on the Arizona-California-Mexico border for more than 20 years, where she gave innumerable members of our nation’s armed forces and the community at large the love and warmth of her holiday home-cooked meals when they needed it most. After the death of her beloved husband, Trish returned to Nashville to be close to her family. She was an incredible cook, an avid gardener, and a lover of good books. Trish was also a quick-witted and charismatic storyteller, who touched many lives throughout her 78 years. Truly to know her was to love her. A beloved mother, nana, sister and sister-in-law, aunt, and friend, Trish spent her retirement in Nashville enjoying her hobbies, her dogs, and the company of her loving family and friends. In addition to her husband, Trish was preceded in death by her father Eugene Simmons (a milkman for Sealtest Dairy who drove the last horse-drawn milk carriage in Nashville), her mother Annie Simmons (a one-room schoolhouse teacher at Marrowbone School in Cheatham County), her daughter Lisé Gayle (Thompson) Wille, her siblings H.G. Simmons, Shirley Sue (Simmons)Lawrence, Jimmy Simmons, Jerry Simmons, Frank Simmons, Arthur Don Simmons, Gayle (Simmons) Adams, and Gilbert Wayne Simmons. She is survived by her daughter Lori Anne (Thompson) Murphy, her son Dr. Patrick Eugene Phoebus (Vena), her grandchildren Joseph DeMoura III (Stacy), John Randolph Murphy, Jackson Warner Murphy, Sarah Anne Murphy (Collin), Zooecia Patricia Phoebus, Sophia Pauline Phoebus, great-grandson Jordan Joseph DeMoura, brother Murray Glenn Simmons, sisters-in-law Betty, Christina, and Joann Simmons, brother-in-law Archie Adams, and a host of beloved nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. Please join us at Phillips-Robinson Funeral Home, 2707 Gallatin Pike, Nashville, this Friday, March 11th, for the visitation and memorial service honoring the life of Patricia Anne Barnicle. The visitation is from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., with the service immediately following. Interment will take place following the service at Felts Cemetery in Cheatham County. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Tennessee Breast Cancer Coalition and the Metro Nashville Animal Care and Control.

Patricia Anne Barnicle

January 25, 1944 - February 19, 2022