Aug. 12, 1925, to Aug. 3, 2022.
Mom’s family is saddened to announce her peaceful passing in Nanaimo, with her daughter and son at her bedside. Mom was predeceased by her husband Bob, the love of her life, after 66 years of marriage, in 2013, and by her son John in 1969 at the age of 17.
She was predeceased by her family in England; mom Elizabeth (1969); dad William (1980); and brother Michael in 2010.
Mom is survived by her daughter Carol (Dave) Berte in Calgary; her son Dave (Rose) Lasser in Sechelt; her sister-in-law Maureen Biggin in England, her three grandchildren Ashley (Ryan) Seath in Winlaw, 小蓝视频; Devin Berte in Calgary; Mark Lasser in Victoria, and her two great-grandchildren Miles and Elliot Seath.
Mom was born in Exeter, Devon, England, in 1925.
Mom met her future husband Bob in Exeter when Bob’s RCAF 406 Squadron (night fighters) was stationed at the Exeter Airport from Nov. 1943 to April 1944.
In that narrow four-month window, a love was formed that lasted for 70 years.
Dad continued to fly with the squadron from different locations closer to Europe, keeping in touch with Mom by any means possible until the end of the war.
He returned to Canada in Sept 1945. Mom was not able to leave England until Nov 1946.
Then began the long journey to rejoin Bob, by ocean liner to New York City, then by train to Montreal, then by train to Vancouver and finally by Union Steamship to Squamish in mid-Dec 1946 where they were married on Dec. 27th 1946.
The family moved to Gibsons, back to Squamish, and then to Gold River in 1968 as Dad’s career in the forest Industry progressed.
Dad retired, and they moved to Nanaimo in 1984.
They moved into Berwick on the Lake in Nanaimo in 2004.
Mom was a loving and supportive wife, mother and grandmother.
She was a wonderful cook, loved to bake, loved her gardening, made homemade jams, was a great seamstress and made most of her own clothes.
She and Dad enjoyed playing bridge together and travelling to many parts of the world.
Dad always said that Barbara was “the best thing that ever happened to me,” and we three kids always felt we had the best mom in town wherever we lived. She truly loved being a wife and a mom.
