We love her.
We miss her.
We were so blessed to have known her.
Gezina Verkley, Mother to 11, Grandmother to 23, and Great-Grandmother to 7, passed away on October 25th, 2006.
Hundreds of family members, friends, and acquaintances gathered over the weekend to share our sorrows and whisper our good-byes.
The collective thoughts of everyone who gathered to honour her life focused on a woman who touched the lives of so many with her smile, her laughter, her love, and her hugs.
She led the family by example, by loving her husband, family, and friends, guiding us all to become better people.
Beautiful flowers, colours, and even a couple of birds. Grandma always loved her birds.
Please use this Verkley blog to share your memories and photos.
I have resized and uploaded all of Bill Groot’s photos from Saturday into the /images/ folder that rotates on the right hand side of this blog. You can also view them by looking at https://verkley.com/images/ and looking at the photos that start with “BG06-10”.
Tom Verkley wrote a song and sang it at the funeral with his son Patrick’s accompaniment. Here are the lyrics:
The Dash Between
I never thought that this would happen
The lord has called and I must go
I see you all gathered around me
To bid me fond farewell it set’s my heart aglow
I do love you so
I come to the end of a long lifetime
So long it’s hard to comprehend
Year after year there came the seasons
I’m only sorry that for me the seasons end
For you they go on and on
When I go I will leave someone
When I go all things will change
But when I go I again will become someone
That can run and laugh and sing and dance all day
In my life dear God the memories
All the birthday parties and weddings I’ve been to
Though I’ve not said it for sometime
I want to thank you all and say that I’ll miss you
My love goes on and on
It really is the dash between
When we are born and when we fall
And what we do in every single blessed day
Oh to know what I have known
Oh and to live it all again
Will be what I hope to do as I go on my way
When I go I will leave someone
When I go all things will change
But when I got I again will be someone
That can run and laugh and sing and dance all day
Written by; Tom Verkley
The Verkley Family 
Brian, Leanne, and I each wrote our thoughts about Grandma in our personal blogs.
Here are the direct link to my post:
http://goldwingnetwork.com/blog/index.php/2006/10/25/my_grandma_died
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