This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Barbara Gibson, 60, born on April 9, 1952 and passed away on July 16, 2012. We will remember her forever.
I hope we can use this site as a way to capture Barbara's legacy, to share her love among us and to be inspired to make meaning out of the lives we are living.
I also hope this can be a place where we can connect, albeit in a cyber space way, as I have been missing knowing about all of you, but haven't been able to reach out and connect.
May this memorial site be alive with all Mum/Barb offered to us. May we feel her love and be connected and thrive with the love we share for her and from her.
Also, Let's post pictures. I have many from the year she was with us in Toronto, but not many digital files of any others..... please share.
Tributes
Leave a tributeMiss you, I always feel your presence which provides a sense of peace and comfort. Love Always. Margaret.
Miss you. Love you.
You would have been 71 today! I wish I could see you at that age, I bet you’d still be working in some way. I bet you’d also be writing and making a garden and playing with your grandkids and other peoples grandkids! I bet you’d have figured some more peace out by now and i think you’d still be loving each day in its uniqueness.
You had and still have an amazing way of being grateful. I’m trying to share that with Kai and Evren, trying to remember it myself, live it and bring your kindness into my work and family and personal growth.
It’s harder without you here honestly AND even as I write this I can feel you saying “but I’m right beside you, Mi, I’m right here.”
I appreciate your commitment to joy, your courage to be happy, to claim your happiness. I also think you’ve done the transformation that happens on the other side and you can see where mistakes were made. I think you know now that you made mistakes, that you forgive yourself and you’re sitting here with me and all of us showing us that nothing is perfect but we can decide what’s best for self, and in that, what is potentially best for us all.
I hear you encouraging me to share more of myself with the world, more of my inner workings and ok, mum I get it, you can see and you want me to share that I can see too.
Thanks for always being on my team, even when I made mistakes, even when you made mistakes, you were always on my team, and you still are.
Happy day you came down to Earth. May you continue to fly free.
Love
Lamia
You are truly missed, your kindness, warmth and caring of others can never be replaced. Wish you were here to share your birthday, think of you always:)))
Marg:))))
What I thought would happen didn’t. And what I wanted to happen was different that what ended up being my life these past ten years. It’s like yesterday and twenty years ago and five years from now when you died.
I suffered. Definitely. I’ve been struggling and thriving. Growing, developing, living, making grave mistakes, longing for you and remembering you.
I haven’t done a great job of sharing you with your grandkids. I don’t regret. I own.
These next ten years without you will reflect this current transformation. Since you died I withered. Truth. And now I rise.
Barbara Joan Gibson. I would love to know you now, to hear your thoughts on now, to debate politics with you, relate across differences of parenting and business and living. We were quite different you and I, and very much linked in the deep appreciation for life you left me with.
I lost that for a few years. Got lost in the grief and trauma. I am found now. Reconnected to appreciating life, this day, this moment, this opportunity.
I share this here, your life impacted me, your impact ripples into my life and then you go beyond my life … j in to my clients, my kids, my dear ones, my strangers. your kindness and grace lives on, my mum, your joy and fortuitous spirit live on in me. I’m transforming some of our Gibson stoicism and keeping a bunch of it.
What is it like out there mum?
Where do you go now that your spirit is free?
May you write every story in your heart, may you laugh and have fun and be romanced, may you know peace.
with love, b
We miss you so much and will always remember you with smiles.
I'm still holding your hand my great friend.
Love Kim xxx
Miss you daily and I will always be holding your hand my friend.
Love Kim x
I added 3 pictures of beautiful Barb in the Gallery for all to see
Wish you were here:)))
Keep watching over us
Love always.
Margaret
I may not follow -
Don't walk behind me,
I may not lead -
Just walk beside me
and be my friend.
Still holding your hand Barb, my friend.
We all need a friend, especially during this Pandemic....
Miss you so much.
Love Kim & family
I feel honoured that you were in my life for so many years and still feel your presence in my home.
I will be holding your hand forever Barb and thank you for being such a true friend.
You are missed by so many people here in Vancouver, every person who met you admired the wonderful person you were.
You will never be forgotten Barb. xxx
I think of you every day and I smile, remembering you for being you! You brought love, life, compassion and more to everyone you met.
I'm still holding your hand Barb.
Sister, I hope your are 'Dancing in Heaven'
You will always be with us Barb.
I'm still holding your hand Barb
Love & miss you my friend
Kim x
Love You. Margaret xoxoxo
Oh Barb, the stories we could tell....I talk to you always, in my head & sometimes as if you are here, cup of tea & a chat!
I miss you so much my friend, but you will never be forgotten because you never left us, you are in our hearts & memories forever.
I'm still holding your hand Barb & will do forever :)
Happy Birthday Barb, you are the brightest Star in the Sky.
Vancouver has never been the same without you.
We Love & miss you so much, you were a ray of sunshine every day!
Kim XXX
I'm still holding your hand Barb!
Love Kim & Family
Love Always. Margaret xxx
Here are some pictures to remember her by.
https://youtu.be/HKwTcLCQcdo
copy the link and paste it into the address bar to watch the video on YouTube
John and Robert
'Barb' was our friend, and when Yvonne was terminally ill, Barb was there (albeit by email & other forms of communications) even though she was living in another part of the world:and later in my hour of need (grief) she was there for me - do I need say any more about this very special person that made a real difference to our lives. xxx
Margaret
Leave a Tribute
Miss you, I always feel your presence which provides a sense of peace and comfort. Love Always. Margaret.
I accept and i miss
after you died, and many times since i read the letter you left me, telling me I can do things on my own. That i have to remember this. You were so right and so wrong, being alive when you wrote it you couldn't have known I wouldn’t be alone, bit i bet now you do. I know now too.
i miss you on this earth. I feel you, and know you are with me. I wasn't ok for a long time. Bit i am now, and i love you. we miss you, and i hope you are soaring in love.
today i met a baby at the park who was about to turn one at the end of the month. She was so so smiley i askwd what day is her bday… her aunt said april 26. Thanks mum, i am alone, and i am not.
ALWAYS MISSED:))
Margaret.