Rosanne Kabana Harrington

Rosanne K. Harrington age 52 of Bolingbrook passed away September 10, 2014. Loving wife of Andrew. Rosanne Harrington was; • A two time cancer survivor. Rosanne fought Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, in her last year of dental school and won the battle and became a Doctor of Dental Science. Two years later, the cancer reappeared, but again Rosanne fought back and won with over 20 years of remission from the disease. • A Big Brain, a phrase coined by her husband, Andy. She has an Honors degree in Biology for Rutgers University in New Jersey and became a Doctor of Dental Science from The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey as a licensed Dentist in NJ, IL and WI. • Creative: She liked to work with her hands. She was good at needlepoint from an early age and has done a lot of crocheting. She found Dentistry to be her creative and professional outlet. She liked to decorate - the paint schemes for the rooms in her house were planned to help people relax and feel comfortable. • Caring: She was a general dentist, and spent time every month working for the DuPage County Health Department where she took care of the dental problems of those who could not afford to pay for their own dental work. The people at the Health Department enjoyed having Rosanne help there because she often sang to cheer the people there and to make the young kids feel at ease. They remarked that she paid a lot of attention to giving those people her very best care and quality work. • A bicycling enthusiast: Rosanne and Andy met in a bicycling club in New Jersey, and bicycling remained a big part of their lives. They used to put together riding plans for their biking club when the club planned weekend tours and rode together for some 23 years with their last bicycle ride just last Saturday, September 6. Rosanne also ran track and cross country in school. • A gardener: Rosanne and Andy's yard is filled with flower beds and are members of The Bolingbrook Garden Club for nearly 15 years. There is a flower bed dedicated to white flowers, and another to blue. There are shrubs and trees, climbing vines and various ground cover. And there is a vegetable garden that produces a large variety of organic fresh vegetables and herbs. • A cook: Rosanne excelled at using her fresh grown herbs to put together wonderful dinners with rich and delicate flavors. • A musician: She was multi-talented with being a cantor, psalmist, and choir member at St. Francis of Assisi. She is also remembered for excelling in the hand bell choir at their prior church, St. Raphael's in Naperville. Her family remembers her playing clarinet in the high school marching band. • A competitor: Rosanne loved to play games, whether charades, a board game, or a bean bag toss in the back yard. • A joker: Rosanne had a great sense of humor, and loved to make people laugh. Always the comedian and you sometimes didn't know what she would say next, and when she said it you just laughed harder and shook your head. • An animal lover: She loved rabbits and birds when she was young. Then when with Andy brought their first dog together, Gabby, a smooth haired collie and now to Silky, an American Eskimo/border collie mix. Also coincidently that she and Andy belong to The St. Francis of Assisi Parish. • A Jersey Girl. Once a Jersey Girl always a Jersey Girl and loved the ‘shore’, loved the beach, being in or around the ocean and loved to eat fish and fell in love with King Crab Legs during a cruise in Alaska with Andy. She was a person with exceptional talents and love for all. We will all miss for all of these things we remember about her.