10/07/2024
Hello my beloved friends and community, I finally feel ready to share this painful news with you. My dear mom, Debbie Harris-Funfer, left her body on Tuesday, September 10th at 6:22pm. She died at 75 years old from Corticobasal Syndrome, which is a rare form of Parkinson's Disease.
We will have a Celebration of Life ceremony and gathering for my mom at the Lion's Club on this upcoming Saturday, October 12th (103 Bonnet Ave, Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2K8). Everyone who knew my mom, and/or was touched by her kindness, directly or indirectly, is most welcome. The doors open at 3:30pm, the service will go from 4pm until 5pm, and then we will have a reception with appetizers and drinks from 5pm until 7pm. If you want to join us in celebrating, honouring, and loving my dear mom, please come.
My mom was my fierce protector, my teacher, my role model, my champion, and one of my best friends in this world. She was the best mom I could have ever wished for in my wildest dreams. Words cannot even begin to describe how lucky I feel that I got to have such an incredible woman bring me into this world and raise me.
I know that the ripples of her kindness stretched out and reached so many people in this community. She created, founded, and built Treasures of the Heart, the metaphysical gift store in Ganges here on Salt Spring Island. She welcomed everyone into her store as though they were a dear friend. She wanted her store to feel like a temple, and to be a sanctuary where anyone who needed it could find peace, comfort, and healing.
My mom was fearless, committed, generous, and incredibly kind. Throughout her life, she traveled the world, she started 4 businesses, she taught and inspired children, she comforted the dying, and she was always a passionate spiritual seeker.
She lived an incredible life and she showed me by her example that anything is possible and that there is nothing I cannot do if I take a leap of faith and give myself to it. But the greatest gift she ever gave me is unconditional love. Thanks to her, I know in my bones what it feels like to be adored for exactly who I am. And I will spend the rest of my life sharing that gift with as many people as I can.
I miss her so much, but I know that she lives on in all the people whose lives she has touched. I Iove you mom, with every fibre of my being.
