Elizabeth Georgia Harrington

If you've ever gone on a lion hunt with Mother Goose at Christmas time, you probably knew Babbie. Babbie spent her life loving and helping children, and never met one she didn't love. Elizabeth Georgia Harrington died holding the hand of her daughter Heather, in her daughter Beth's house, having been visited/video phoned by children, grandchildren (9), nieces and nephews, cousins, her sister-in-law and friends during her 2 month hospice journey. Babbie was mentally alert, grateful and peaceful as she finished her 91 years here and was "ready to go be with Rollie." Her early dyslexia made Babbie treasure the teachers who helped her learn to read, so she became a teacher. While at CU she met and married a handsome man who spent his life delivering babies, so it isn't a shock they had over 60 happy years together. Babbie taught elementary school kids in Utah, Hawaii, Michigan, England, and Colorado and adopted four babies along the way (William in Hawaii and Thomas, Elizabeth and Heather in Colorado). After "their" military draft time in England with the Air Force, Babbie came home to Boulder where she used her vast free time, with 3 little ones under 5, to design and build a home at 6th and Juniper where they lived for 45 years. That experience was so much fun, Babbie then designed and built an office building for her husband at 1000 North Street, but by then it was with 4 kids under 7 and a menagerie of animals. After her adventure in building design using her art skills, Babbie focused on building a healthy community. She helped students for a couple of decades by giving individual reading instruction and coordinating the Perceptual Program at Foothill Elementary School, even authoring and illustrating a book teaching grammar. As Mother Goose and the Director of Santa's House, Babbie helped make Christmas a little more special and child focused for over 50,000 youngsters, including in Spanish on Thursdays, at her old Sorority, the Pi Phi House, for over half a century. Loving children came naturally to Babbie, as did making friends. She treasured her friends, celebrating with an annual Christmas Cookie Party and in her bridge groups that became loving support groups as life challenges erupted over the 60 years of friendships. Babbie was preceded in death by her beloved family: parents Thomas Phelps Carpenter and Elizabeth Georgia Carpenter (Webb), her brother Thomas P. Carpenter, sister Dorothy Carpenter Cummings, son William Todd Harrington and husband Ronald E. Harrington, MD. Babbie's ashes will be spread in the places she loved and shared with her multitude of friends and large extended family: Green Lake Wisconsin, Hawaii, and the Colorado mountains. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to Community Food Share, because as Babbie would say, "nobody should go hungry in Boulder."