JOAN BERYL THOROGOOD

Condolences & Memories (9 entries)

• Well my sister Joan, Pop passed away at 12:05 am. I am just so sad, because it is exactly 6 years to the day you passed away on Feb 14, 2013 and now Pop on Feb 14, 2019. I know you were there to bring him home with you and one day we will all be together again and it will be so good to see you no longer broken. Tell Pop I love him although I know he already knows. Tell him just how sad my heart is today and forever. But he was the best father ever, he did all those things with us like bike riding and going for long walks and just always being there for us and now he is with you. I love you both very much forever and ever and always. Dad there will be no one to bring cool wet wash cloths any longer to dry my tears, I will so miss you. I love Dad because you were and are the best. Take care of Joan for me. - Posted by: Barb (Sister) on: Feb 14, 2019

• Joan, on Thursday it will be 6 years to the day you have gone from us and 6 years that I am still missing you. I miss our late night sister talks, I miss just picking up the phone any time of the day just to tell you a little tidbit of sister talk. You left, Doug left and I just found out Auntie Nellie just passed. So watch out for her up there and welcome her with open arms. Pop almost died this Nov/Dec but he pulled through...I can't believe how fast the 6 years have gone bye...I love you Joan and miss you. Love Barb - Posted by: Barb (Older Sister) on: Feb 12, 2019

• 3 years to the day that you passed Joan. I think of you everyday and miss you everyday. So many changes for me, I know you would be laughing at me to know where I am...I miss you my little sister, my heart has an empty spot in it...love Barb - Posted by: Barb (Sister) on: Feb 11, 2016

• Today is 2 years that you passed...I miss you so much my sister...I only wished you knew just how much. Love you so much Joan. I wish you could have been here to see how much the baby you helped deliver has grown. He will be turning 23 on Sunday...please look down on us, there will be a piece of cake for you. With much love your big sister, Barb - Posted by: Barb (sister) on: Feb 12, 2015

• Just thinking of you today Joan...I found a poem and wanted to share it with you... I still miss you As the days and years pass I still miss you As the pain of grief softens I still miss you As new memories are made I still miss you As I smile and laugh I still miss you Today and everyday I still miss you (2013 www.TheGriefToolBox.com) You are always in my thoughts my little sister and I just miss you. Love Barb - Posted by: barb (sister) on: Nov 04, 2014

• Joan thinking of you on your one year passing today and all the good times we had. - Posted by: Barb (Sister) on: Feb 13, 2014

• My dear sister Joan, I miss you. I was not allowed to say goodbye to you. Those people who kept me from you, know who they are and they will have to live with that for the rest of their sad lives...yes it's said everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame at one time or another...I guess this was theirs. You are my younger sister. Yes, we did have our fights...tell me what sisters didn't. But I always loved you and tried to look out for you. I remember the day you were born. They told me I had a baby sister... The one thing they can't take away was, all of our fun times. Trying to teach you how to drive and almost crashing the car into the ditch because you took your hands off the wheel, covering your eyes saying you couldn't drive and stepping on the gas peddle the croquet touraments...with the 8 man tent and no men...lol. Living together on Watt Street with our adopted brothers Fernando and Colin. The time I dumped a cold pail of water on your head when you were coming home from work and you threw my brand new bra out into 4 o'clock rush hour traffic on Watt Street as pay back and I had to go out and get it... Or the time we drove to Edmonton and played name that dead squished thing, and the many trips to see Doug and the Slugs... There are so many memories of you that I will hold dear to my heart Joan. You were blessed with many special gifts. Your talent as an artist and poet, the creativity just flowed out of your being. Your sense of humour that came through in your creative Ass Crack Waxing certificate...or Mahotma Presley psychic advisor to Elvis... You were my birthing coach even though you had no idea about babies, the auntie who was the first one to hold my son right after he was born. The one who said "a baby, I don't know how to hold a baby" and the nurse responding " well for christ sake don't drop him", and you didn't. You brought him over to me and said he didn't look like an Otis (for that was the name I had picked out for him) and you were right he didn't look like an Otis, so we named him Nicholas, after uncle Nick... Then 21 years later you passed away, one day before his 21st birthday, if I had only known you would be gone in such a short time...I would have told you I loved you more. But we did have a final conversation, we cleared the air and told each other we loved and forgave one another in the way that only sisters can do...and a few days after you passed, your spirit came to see me, to pass along a message "that you were no longer broken" you were now strong, confident and free to play in the meadow with your cats... And who knows if the certain LS had not killed your spirit all those years ago maybe things would have turned out much, much differently and you would not have had to live your life broken...but hey who knew...it had all been swept ever so neatly under the carpet and no one spoke or stood up for the 2 broken sisters.... Go in peace Joan, my little sister, I will always love and miss you Love your big sister, Barb - Posted by: Barb (Oldest Sister) on: Mar 20, 2013

• To Joan's Family. I am very sorry to hear of Joan's death. She was a very special person, support and friend during my years of advocating for changes to the mental health system in Manitoba and Canada. I only wish we had accomplished more however, maybe in the future positive change will be advanced, partly because of our contribution. Joan was a truly beautiful person and I will remember her with fondness. Sincerely, Bev Goodwin - Posted by: Beverley Goodwin (Friend) on: Feb 24, 2013

• I am thankful that Joan came into my life she was a very happy person. Joan was like a big sister to me, she was always helping me with my home work - my study buddy - she was the best. Joan was a loving and caring person, she was a good cat sitter -Velcro and Westbound loved her as did I. We were there for each other. She always talked about the bright side of life and she was full of life, a good listener and wise. Thank-you Joan for the good times - Posted by: Chantel Mohammed (Friend /nabour) on: Feb 20, 2013