Obituary of Anne Marie Verberne

Five years. Five years feels like a lifetime and the blink of an eye. It’s been five years since we have seen your smile, five years since we have felt your warm embrace. It’s been five years since we have heard you laugh or seen the excitement on the faces of the children when you arrive. It’s been five years since we have smelled your perfume, that ever so distinctive smell that always smelled like home. It’s been five years since we have seen you tend to your flowers or chase away the bully birds who never gave the little birds a chance to eat at the feeder. It’s been five years since we have heard your voice, always full of encouragement and love. It feels like so long since we have experienced all that is you. Yet it still feels like you will return to us one day, to bring back that wonderful peace and calm you always gave us. Five years gone, but always remembered and forever loved.

It is with great sadness that the family of Anne Marie Verberne announce that she has been welcomed into the arms of the good Lord. Peacefully, with her loving family at her side on Thursday, May 12, 2016. Anne Marie Verberne of Kerwood at the age of too young.

Loving and cherished wife of John and mother of Kyle Robert Douglas (Nikki) and Mindy Anne Groves (Mark). Loving Nannie to Savannah, Rhianna and Mason Douglas and Evan and Owen Groves.

Dear sister of Kimberly May Bach (Joe) and Stephen James Gooding (Lisa). Loving aunt to Derek and Amber. Lovingly remembered by the entire Verberne family. Predeceased by her parents Robert and Josephine Gooding, her brother Andrew, and her mother in law Catherine (Oma).

A celebration of Anne’s life will be held in the future and shared at www.denning.ca.

If desired, memorial contributions to the Make A Wish Foundation or the Trillium Fund would be appreciated as your expression of sympathy. Arrangements entrusted to DENNING’S OF STRATHROY. 519 245-1023.