Center Harbor----- Sylvia Stark Farrington, flight attendant turned book indexer, lover of dachshunds, raspberries, jazz, theater and all things New York, Sylvia Stark Farrington died Thursday, June 30, 2016 while hospitalized near her summer home in Center Harbor, New Hampshire.
Born in Santa Clara, Cuba, November 16, 1926, to an American father, Harry Stark and Cuban mother, Silvia (Masdidal) Stark she joined Pan American in its glory days to see the world. While airborne she met the love of her life—whom she noticed because he was reading D.H. Lawrence—and with whom she traveled widely. Africa was a favorite destination.
She is survived by her pilot husband, Robert “Bob” Farrington, extended family in Texas and Florida, and a wide circle of friends who will miss her keen intelligence, dry wit and loving embrace.
Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. is assisting the family with the arrangements. For more information and to view an online guestbook please visit www.wilkinsonbeane.com.