Patricia Ann Barget (maiden name Kinch), 74, died on February 21 at home in Severna Park, Maryland from lung cancer. From her birth in Baltimore in 1942 to Thomas J. and Dora (Iager) Kinch to her death this week, she inspired a little bit of unconventional spark in life. She was a teacher by profession, so for many years, she impacted the lives of hundreds of children. Patricia served for many years as an outreach volunteer working with donor families through the Johns Hopkins Hospital transplant center. What may be the most memorable of all is her example to be courageous in attitude, confronting challenges and shunning the status quo when there is a better way.  She was a kind and generous woman who always looked to help other people see their own capabilities to be their best.

She is survived by her husband W. Robert Barget, Jr., her sister Diane Henkel and spouse, Charles Henkel, two brothers Kevin and Michael Kinch, step-mother, Doris Kinch, four children John (and Denise) Hamilton, Marybeth Rupeiks, Jennifer (and Jason) Faust and Jeannine and (Eric) Hines, six grandchildren Natalie, Nicholas, Daphne, Julia, Jacob and Owen as well as numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.

The Barget family would like to extend our profound appreciation to the medical teams who cared for her, including her physician, Dr. Kevin O'Keefe, the Hospice of the Chesapeake, The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center.   Patricia and her family have special fondness for the Hopkins transplant team and her organ donor Clare Furay for giving Patricia the miraculous gift of a second life after her liver transplant in 1999. Patricia's gratitude to her organ donor has inspired her family to ask friends to donate gifts named "in honor of Clare Furay" to the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center as a way of remembering Patricia.

Family, friends, and others will be invited in the Spring to a Celebration of Life to commemorate and remember Patricia's life.

Memorial contributions can be made in memory/honor of Clare Furay to the Johns Hopkins Department of Surgery in support of the Comprehensive Transplant Center.  Please make checks payable to Johns Hopkins University and forward to: Bridget Cashen, Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine, 550 North Broadway, Suite 722, Baltimore, MD, 21205. To make an online gift via credit card, please visit: https://secure.jhu.edu/form/surgery .

Online condolences may be made at www.barrancofuneralhome.com