Remembering and Honoring the Life of Eva Harrington

EHST will hold a virtual memorial service for Eva Harrington who died in 2020. She was a longtime supporter of Ethical Culture both at EHST and in New York.  We welcome her friends and family to join us.  AEU Leader Randy Best will facilitate our program.  Here is a very brief review of her life:

Eva Harrington, who passed away on March 15^th, 2020, was a long-time member of the Ethical Humanist Society of the Triangle.  Born in Vienna, Austria on July 4^th, 1921, she witnessed Hitler’s anschluss in March, 1938, followed by the incarceration of her father and uncle in the Dachau concentration camp.  After their release in 1939, Eva and her parents emigrated first to England, then to the United States, arriving in 1940.  

She met her surviving husband, Ralph Balzac, at the Ethical Society of Northern Westchester in 1990.  They moved to North Carolina in 1994 and immediately joined EHST (then called the Ethical Culture Society of the Triangle).

Eva was an extremely bright and warm person, deeply committed to her community and to her work as a guardian et litem.  She was very welcoming to visitors to EHST, resulting in several new members joining the society.  Trained as an accountant she served many terms on the board as Treasurer, swapping duties with Ralph as the allowed length of service ended.  She and Ralph opened their home for many EHST events over the years, including an annual Thanksgiving potluck dinner for their EHST family.

She was predeceased by her daughter, Susie Goldfrank, a former AEU president and is survived by 3 grandchildren and 8 greatgrandchildren.  She is deeply missed by all those who knew her.

This talk will be presented via a Zoom session. You do not need a Zoom account to “attend” this virtual meeting.  If you would like to be a participant in the meeting, please email us at info@ncethicalsociety.org and provide your first and last name in your request.