October 28, 2013

Shari Ann Harrington

Pompton Lakes

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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, November 1, 2013 from 3-7 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, November 2, 2013, 8:30 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.

Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.

Shari Ann Harrington (nee Pfisterer) age 71 of Pompton Lakes passed away suddenly and unexpectedly at home on Monday, October 28, 2013.

She was born and raised in Springfield having graduated from Springfield High School with the Class of 1960.

Shari graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Education from Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, NJ with the Class of 1964.

She worked as a retail sales clerk at Bamberger’s Department Store in Newark, where she met her boss and future husband James J. Harrington. They were both transferred to the Macy’s at Willowbrook Mall in Wayne. They soon fell in love and married on September 11, 1971 at Holy Cross Church in Wayne and honeymooned in Cape Cod. Shari had worked as an office administrator for Health South which later changed to Kessler Rehabilitation Center in Midland Park for the past fifteen years.

A warm, friendly, and private person, she was the loving wife of twenty-three years to the late James J. Harrington (1994); loved niece of Edna Howard of Clinton; dear step-daughter of the late Gertrude Pfisterer (2013); cherished sister-in-law of: Mary Sisco, Kevin Harrington and his devoted friend Colleen, John J. Harrington and his late wife Linda Harrington (2007) of Suwanee, GA, and the late Thomas E. Harrington (1998); beloved aunt of William T. Sisco, the late Laura Sisco (2008), Brian Sisco, Sean J. Harrington, Andrea Sisco, and Tiffany Sisco.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Saint Luke’s Displacement Fund, PO Box 416, Long Valley, NJ 07853 would be appreciated.

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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, November 1, 2013 from 3-7 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, November 2, 2013, 8:30 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.

Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.

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