Born April 23, 1962. died age 53 on May 23, 2015. in the arms of her husband of 16 years, David Hathaway.
Elisabeth, called T, was born in Providence Rhode Island to Charlotte Harris and Andrew Dragat. She grew up in Norwichtown, Canton and Granby Connecticut, and went to school in Granby, Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, Middlebury College (BA) in Vermont, Sonoma State University (MS) and Pacifica Graduate Institute (PhD) both in California. As an undergraduate she studied semesters at American University and Harvard College; as a graduate student she studied at the Jung Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. Before and during graduate school T worked as an exhibiting artist and graphics designer and in marketing for the East Bay Express in Berkeley. Then, degrees in hand, she began her career as a clinical psychologist, work she loved. She served various internships, served as a social worker, and therapist in a variety of settings, then was a staff psychologist for five years at Sonoma Developmental Center to achieve licensing. Since 1998, T worked as a clinical psychologist in private practice in Petaluma, CA, initially affiliated with Psych Strategies, a group practice and later as a sole practitioner. During eight years of that time she was also Co-Training Director and Primary Clinical Supervisor at Santa Rosa Junior College Student Health Center. T’s greatest gifts, and she had many, were her empathy for others and her capacity for connection. In her work she touched thousands of lives, each one important to her.
T’s marriage, friendships, church, family and pets were the centers of her private life. She served in many volunteer capacities at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Petaluma including worship associate and lay leader, and on the board of Four Springs Retreat Center in Middlesprings, California. For many years T and David spent Christmas holidays with her family in Falmouth Massachusetts and traveled with them in New England and the west coast. More of a reader than an athlete, nevertheless she taught crew for several summers and was a fine skier. Attentive, graceful and kind, T loved and was loved by her family and friends. Her caregivers in her ultimately unsuccessful struggle against leiomyosarcoma were her husband, mother, aunt Mary and loving friends Kim Bateman, Pati Wilson, and Leslie Harrison. They are grateful for the good care she received through Kaiser Permenente and St. Joseph’s Hospice of Petaluma. Kim said about her early death,”She leaves a T shaped hole in the universe.”
She is survived by her husband, David Hathaway, her mother Charlotte Harris and aunt Mary Harris of Falmouth MA, her brother John Dragat and his wife, Pia, and children Juliana, Marielle, and Carissa of Waban, MA, her father Andrew Dragat and his wife Linda, aunt and uncle Peggy and Bob Stanwood and cousins Nancy Stanwood and Charlie and Lynn Stanwood and their children, Julie Dragat and Kathy Goldberg and her children. She was predeceased by her beloved grandparents, Margaret and John Harris of Stoddard NH and Falmouth MA.