Monta Grey Harrington

Dover:  Monta Grey Harrington died in her home in Dover after a four your bout with cancer.  She was born in 1949 in Oakland, California.  Her father was in the Air Force and so the family moved often, including spending a few years in Japan.  She graduated high school in Fairborn Ohio and attended Wright State University graduating with a BFA in 1971.  She travelled extensively, living for a time in Idaho.  

In 1974 she entered the MFA painting program at Tyler School of Art where she met her husband, Terence McKenna.  After graduate school the couple lived for a year in Jersey City, marrying in 1976.  After a year in Jersey City the couple spent 4 months in Ireland painting landscapes and traveling.  They returned in 1977 and moved to western Ohio.  Their son, Nicholas was born in 1978.   

They returned to New Jersey in 1981 and lived in Whippany from 1983 til 1997 when they moved to Dover.  

Monta worked for the Learning Resource Center delivering educational material to schools in Morris and Sussex counties.  She soon moved to the Morris County Library where she was an exhibit designer working in the Music and Art Department.  Her exhibits played a role in convincing the county freeholders to support an expansion of the library to its current facility.  She transitioned to St Hubert’s Giralda and ran their museum gift shop until she moved to Eastern National Parks and Monuments association where she managed book stores in National Park sites such as the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island where in addition to managing her staff, she was responsible for store design and visual merchandising.  She retired from Eastern National in 2015.  

Monta is survived by her husband, Terence McKenna and her son Nicholas McKenna.  She also leaves her older sister Judith Timberman in Chesterfield Md, a nephew David Lang in Ca and a cousin Stacey Harrington in Kenmore Wa.  

Services will be private.

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