Judith Rose (Tennant) Hainesdied Wednesday, November 27, 2013 in Hanover, New Hampshire. She was born to Mildred and Mark Tennant on April 3rd, 1919 in Sioux City, Iowa, and was the younger of their 2 daughters.

Judith moved to Florida with her family in the 1920s and graduated from Miami High School in 1936. From there, she went to Ohio Wesleyan College, where she received her Bachelor's Degree in 1940, then began graduate studies at Duke University, where she earned a MS in Medical Technology.

Following the end of WWII Judith went to Poland (1946-1950) serving as the medical technologist with the Unitarian Service Committee, which, with UN support, created The Kosciuszko Hospital Project, which turned a 350-bed pre-war hospital complex into a modern medical center in Upper Silesia.

She also earned both a Master's Degree and a PhD. in Cancer Biology in 1962 from the University of Minnesota. From 1961-1963 Judith lived in Bar Harbor, ME completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the Jackson (Genetics) Laboratory. In 1964, she began work at The Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York City, where she continued her thesis problem "Immunogenetic Factors in Leukemogenesis" and published 12 papers on the subject. Her final professional involvement was serving as Executive Biomedical Editor of the Journal of Cell Biology for Rockefeller University, from which she retired in 1982.

In 1977 she married Franklin M. Haines and moved to Rye, New York. Here she participated in literacy efforts and with Frank enjoyed sailing on "Wind Lass," hiking in the mountains of the US and Europe and traveling throughout Europe, including a return trip to Poland, Egypt, and China. Mr. Haines predeceased her in 1990.

In 1999, Judith moved to Hanover, NH, entering the Kendal Retirement Community complex (Kendal) in 2000, where she made many new friends and enjoyed loving care.

Judith was a life-long role model for reading, education, scholarship, the arts, having one's own professional life, and travel for her beloved niece, two nephews, and nine grandnieces and nephews. She treated each to a full week of customized culture and adventure in New York City and myriad other adventures.

Judith is survived by her niece (Sherry Shaw Taber of Auke Bay, AK); 2 nephews (Terry Shaw of Prineville, Oregon and Mark Shaw of Seattle, WA); 9 grandnieces and nephews, and 9 great-grandnieces and nephews, along with her cousins Ted Parkins, Rosemary Monroe, and Connie Tennant. Her sister Esther Anne Tennant Shaw preceded her in death in 2012.

Cremation has occurred; burial will follow in 2014 at the Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery in Miami, Florida. In lieu of flowers, donations in Judith's memory may be made to The New York - North Jersey Branch of the Appalachian Mountain Club, 5 West 63rd Street, Suite 220, NYC 10023 or Kendal At Hanover, 80 Lyme Road, Hanover, NH 03755.

Arrangements were under the direction of the Rand-Wilson Funeral Home of Hanover, NH.