Avis de décès de Catherine-L. Harrington - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

GENEVA - Catherine L. "Kay" Harrington, 89, went home to her family on Palm Sunday, April 13, 2014, in Largo, FL.Friends may call at the Riccardi Funeral Home, 69 N. Main St., Cortland, NY on Monday, July 7, 2014, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.; A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m. in St. Mary's Church. A Luncheon will follow the Mass. Interment will be at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in Glenwood Cemetery, Geneva, with a luncheon to follow at Club 86.Memorial contributions, in her name, may be made to St. Mary's Church or School in Cortland, NY.Kay was born to Charles and Mary Saeger Snyder in Waterloo where she was the youngest of eight children and the last surviving sibling. She was also known as "Babookay." She adopted Cortland, NY as her hometown while living there from 1964-2009. Kay became friends with so many people while working at the County Health Dept. before retiring in 1991 that her husband Harry said she could have been elected Mayor. Some of Kay's happiest memories included her vacations to Alaska and Hawaii, growing up on her family's farm during the Great Depression, hot air balloons, drinking Manhattans, enjoying the little house on the lake in Melbourne, FL where she spent many years as a snowbird until 2008, her snowmobiling episode at age of 74 in Vail, watching the "Damn Dogs" for her son's family, making "Bullfrogs" for Snyder family reunions, and avoiding speeding tickets by telling the police she had to go to the bathroom (her other nickname was "Bullitt"). Her biggest disappointment was that she never got that little black VW convertible she always wanted. Kay was a fighter. Her health challenges included diabetes, heart disease, COPD, breast cancer, melanoma, Kidney disease, Parkinson's neuropathy, and three strokes. When informed by her doctor in 1981 at the age of 57 after having an aorta valve replacement that she would go quickly when her time was up, she went home, made herself a Manhattan and said "To hell with it." The mechanical aorta valve was only supposed to last 10 years yet she had the same one at her death at age of 89.Catherine is survived by her son, Thomas D. (Maureen) Harrington of Pinellas Park, Fla.; her daughter, Cathey A. Jewel of Tampa, Fla.; four grandchildren, TJ (Rena) and Kelly Harrington, Caitlin and Connor Jewel; two great-grandchildren, Breana and James Harrington; and several nieces and nephews.She was predeceased by her husband, Thomas H. Harrington, and her seven brothers and sisters, Winfield, Clifford, Robert and Paul Snyder, Marian Fisher, Dorothy Clark, and Clara McNicholas.For those wishing to write a note of condolence, please visit www.devaney bennettfh.com.