November 12, 1931 - September 20, 2023
In Loving Memory ~
Anna Elizabeth Farnsworth, at the age of 91, passed away peacefully at home with family and friends surrounding her on Wed. Sept. 20. 2023 in Campbell River, B.C.
She leaves behind her loving children Wendy Thornton (Eric Johannson), Linda Davidson (Bryan), Ian Scott, Laurie Lind, David Scott, Colin Scott (Angie); her stepchildren Betty Lawlor (Doug), Brent Farnsworth (Donna); her surviving sisters Bertha Langille, Jean Speakman (Dave); and her many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
How can you sum up a person's life in only a few words? You can't. You can only touch on a few moments within their life.
Anna fought the good fight all her life. She was born on Nov. 12,1931 in Malagash, Nova Scotia, one of eight children born to Arthur and Annie Treen. She was born and raised on a farm in a time when there was no electricity or running water. You used an outhouse or a chamber pot, you heated your shared bathwater in a wood stove and your phone was on a party line.
Anna graduated from her one room school and moved to Halifax to become a registered nurse at 18. (Picture a white starchy uniform with white shoes and cap). It was there that she met and married her first love Edison MacLeod when he snuck into a dance held at the nurse's dormitory.
Anna married and loved three times in her life and had seven children and three stepchildren to show for it. Through all her years, family was always the most important part of her life. NO ONE remembered the birthdays of all the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren better than she.
When Anna was 24 years old, she followed her husband and moved from her birthplace of Nova Scotia to Vancouver B.C. At the age of 31 she sailed from Canada to New Zealand. She travelled on a freighter for over a month while pregnant with her last child and with four small children, all under the age of seven, in tow.
There she joined her second love Frank Scott. They spent three years in New Zealand before moving back to Canada.
In her later years, Anna met her last love Bruce Farnsworth at church. They married and spent 23 wonderful years together. When he passed, Anna moved to Campbell River to be closer to her eldest daughter and because Campbell River reminded her of her birthplace in Nova Scotia.
Throughout all these years Anna stayed strong. She was a cancer survivor, one who had survived uterine cancer, skin cancer, and two bouts of colon cancer. But in the end, it was her beautiful heart that failed.
She will be remembered for her cheekiness and humor; for her love of bowling, books, puzzles, and cards, (there is a reason 'Lizzie' earned the nickname 'Ace'); and for her potato salad, baked scallops and jelly cake. But, most of all, she will be remembered for her unwavering love of family and for her unfailing faith in God.
Mom......You are now where you wanted to be.
We love you. Be at peace.