Jill Harrington Hanzalik
September 4, 1976 – April 26, 2010
Springfield, Massachusetts
Jill E. Harrington Hanzalik, 33, and her infant son, Chase Thomas Hanzalik, of 96 Ellis Brook Rd., West Dover, and formerly of Bernardston, Mass., died Monday, April 26, 2010, at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield.
Born in Greenfield, Mass., on Sept. 4, 1976, daughter of Philip Harrington and Wendy Dubois, she was a graduate of Pioneer Valley Regional School in 1994, and a 1998 graduate of the University of Massachusetts, with a bachelor’s degree in sports management.
She married Joseph Hanzalik on May 16, 2009, in West Dover.
She had worked for the Dallas Mavericks basketball team and the National Basketball Association in business development, events, and attractions, working very closely with the U.S. Olympic Basketball Team. At the time of her death, she was employed at New Chapter in Brattleboro, in management.
She was a wonderful wife and very close to her entire family including aunts, uncles, and cousins. She was the love of Joe’s life.
Jill is survived by her husband; her father, Philip Harrington and his wife, Sharon, of Turners Falls, Mass.; her mother, Wendy Dubois, of Bernardston; two brothers, Adams and his wife, Kearstin, of Bernardston, and Kevin and his wife, Kelly, of West Dover; two stepsisters, Leighann Parda and Angela Whelan; her father and mother-in-law, Joanne and Thomas Hanzalik, of Albany, N.Y.; two brothers-in-law, Matthew Hanzalik and his wife, Tamara, of Albany, and Thomas Hanzalik of Albany; and nieces and nephews, Jayden, Aiden, Addison and Liam.
Source: Legacy & JEHH Memorial Fund