When a loved one is facing their final chapter of life, one of the greatest expressions of grace and love is who they write that chapter with.
She won a Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who\'s Who and has her website with them, Doris Anne Holman.com.
She enjoyed a Story Walk with Come With Me to the Pond in Gardiner.
She received the Presenter Award from USF for Suncoast Young Author\'s Celebration.
She is a member of the Maine Arts Commission.
Doris Anne wrote eleven children\'s books featuring birds and visited schools.
They resided in Brunswick, Maine, and wintered in Florida.
Babineau in 1994.
She married Berne A.
She joined Vincent Hartgen\'s Travelling Art Exhibits (UM0) in the 70s.
She ran watercolor workshops in Maine, New Hampshire and Bermuda.
She moved to Wayne, Maine, and married Howard Holman, becoming a Reading Supervisor, teaching second grade, and Middle school art.
They had four children.
She received her degree from Goucher and married Roland Charles Jr in 1959.
Doris Anne enjoyed a career in education and art.
I wanted people to know that God is always with you.
Then I could touch him and he would say, This is wonderful.
If he fell or had a low blood sugar I was allowed into his room.
Covid limited my visits to porch visits where he was separated by glass.
After thirteen days he was transferred to a Hospice/Vet Home.
He was in pallative care so I was allowed to visit.
God gave him visions of priests who filled him with love and took away his pain.
Berne was blind now.
Our nurse advised an evaluation at the hospital where they gave him three days to live.
I had hoped to keep him home with me, but as his systems shut down that was no longer possible.
He remained alert and kept his sense of humor until he passed.
Michael Lacey Chaplain Berne had many angel visits during his last days.
Join Doris Anne on this journey as she shares with you from a deeply personal and sacred place of what it meant- and what it will always mean - to have been Berne\'s best friend and wife.
A journey that can reawaken the heart to the eternal hope for which it was fashioned.
A journey of tears and laughter, reflection and remembrance.
A journey of facing the reality of death while honoring and celebrating life.
In hospice, we describe this as a journey.
When a loved one is facing their final chapter of life, one of the greatest expressions of grace and love is who they write that chapter with
