Terry and Jerry Warrington

The year 2024 marks the passing of identical twin sisters, Terry Lynn Haney and Jerry Worthy Warrington. They were born in Glenwood Springs, Colorado to Betty Arlene Warrington (nee Boyd) and Burel Monroe Warrington.

Jerry arrived first, coming into the world just 12 minutes before her sister, Terry. The family lived in several towns in western Colorado including Carbondale, Palisade, Grand Junction, and Whitewater. Eventually they settled in Durango where they graduated with the class of 1972 from Durango High School. Go Baby Devils!

Terry married her high school sweetheart, Richard Earl Haviland. They had one son, David James Haviland, born in 1974. Jerry married her high school pen pal, Craig Lester Chambers. They had two daughters: Sandra Michelle Chambers-Gordon, born in 1975; and Kelli Marin Jessop (nee Chambers), born in 1980. The sisters lived most of their adult lives in Grays Harbor County in Washington state.

Their lives were not always easy. They had a tumultuous childhood, marriages that ended, and they both struggled with separate diagnoses of multiple sclerosis, Terry in her thirties and Jerry in her forties. Regardless of all that life threw at them though, they always had each other.

Terry was a Grays Harbor/Pacific Counties Master Gardener – Class of 2008. No matter how hard the MS made her life, you could always find her in her garden tending her plants. Oftentimes you could hear her among the peas and squash and flowers, lovingly encouraging them to “grow, dammit!”. As a Master Gardener, she advocated for better accessibility for the disabled in her community. In the words of her friends, Helen and Cindy, “truthfully, we learned far more from Terry. Her tenacity, rising above life’s hard realities and that one person can be an instrument of change”. Her life and advocacy educated many and brought about the new raised garden beds in the Master Gardeners Center at Grays Harbor County Fairgrounds for all gardeners to enjoy. Along with her talent among the roses and in the greenhouse, Terry also enjoyed sewing, crocheting, knitting, baking, camping, fishing, and watching her beloved Mariners. MS may have taken her legs, but it could never take her heart, and she fought it with everything she had every day.

While Terry grew the food, Jerry enjoyed the art of preserving it. She became a Master Food Preserver and could safely can anything from salmon and salsa to jams and jellies. She warned her children against the dangers of home-canned green beans and tomatoes. When picking wild blackberries, she would always tell them “the picking is done as soon as you see the first big, hairy spider”. While Jerry also enjoyed sewing, crocheting, cooking, and baking, her greatest passions were her ongoing education and traveling the world. She took classes at Oxford University in England, and later earned her Masters in History from Colorado State University in 2003. She dedicated much of her life to researching her family’s genealogy. She was meticulous about recording and preserving the history of her and her daughters’ roots and safeguarding the information for future generations. MS did not take her legs as it did Terry’s but her mind and memories, which she fought as hard as she could until the very end.

Terry passed away on Monday, April 22, 2024 at the age of 70. She is survived by her husband, Jack Robyn Haney; her son, David; and her grandchildren Ashton, Ember, and Lunar Haviland.

Just two short weeks after the loss of her twin, Jerry passed away on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at the age of 70. She is survived by her daughters, Sandy and Kelli; and her grandchildren William Jessop, Jaxson Larson, and Caelan Jessop.

They also have one older brother, Michael Monroe Warrington, born in 1953, who survives them, along with his wife and family.