Barbara "Joan" Winger

WINGER - Barbara Joan (nee Lanning) born July 3, 1936 in Victoria BC passed away peacefully June 1, 2025 in North Vancouver, BC.

Predeceased by her father Bernard in 1992, her mother Dorothy (nee Pattullo) in 2000, her brother Jim in 2002 and, sadly, her brother George who passed away just 12 days after Joan.

Joan will be greatly missed by her sisters Chris (Richard) and Wendy and numerous family members and friends. She was a Friend of Bill W’s for over 49 years and forged many close and lasting relationships. Special thanks to loyal friends Carol and Sharon.

A Celebration of Joan’s Life will be held later this year.

Death Is Nothing At All

- by Henry Scott-Holland

Death is nothing at all.

It does not count.

I have only slipped away in the next room. Nothing has happened.

Everything remains exactly as it was.

I am I and you are you,

And the old life that we lived is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other that we are still.

Call me by the old familiar name.

Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.

Put no difference into your tone.

Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together .

Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.

Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.

Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.

Life means all that it ever meant.

It is the same as it ever was,

There is absolute and unbroken continuity.

What is this death but a negligible accident?

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you, for an interval, Somewhere very near,

Just around the corner.

All is well