TERRANCE DOUGLAS HOUSE

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TERRANCE DOUGLAS HOUSE We lost Terry unexpectedly in the early hours of May 24, 2018, after a brief hospital stay. He was 64. Left to mourn are his wife Diane Beresford; son Benjamin House; daughter Georgina House, of Ottawa; brother Randy House, of Fort Frances; sister Paula Ravazzolo and her husband Roland, of Innisfil; sister Shari Comeaux and her partner George of Welland, and many in-laws, nieces, nephews, friends and extended family. He was predeceased by father Thomas House, mother Georgie House and sister Joanne Veige. Please contact family for details about the tribute. Memorial contributions may be made to Heart & Stroke Foundation. Death is nothing at all. It does not count. You have only slipped into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. You are you and I am I, and the old life we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. I will call you by the old familiar name. I will speak of you in the easy way I always used. I will laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. I will play, smile and think of you. Your name will ever be the household word it always was. It will be spoken without effort, without the ghost of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should you be out of mind because you are out of sight? It is as though you are but waiting for me for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well. Adaptation of a piece by Henry Scott Holland (1847 to 1918)

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Jun 02, 2018