Frances Ann MacKenzie

MacKenzie, Frances Ann
April 18, 1952 – June 13, 2016

Frances Ann MacKenzie passed away peacefully after a courageous battle with cancer on Monday, June 13, 2016 at the age of 64 years.  The world lost a beautiful soul that day. Fran is lovingly remembered by her husband of 20 years, Bruce MacKenzie; daughters, Morgan (Mark) Trenchard, Jessie (Troy) Boulton and Allison (Chris) Geiger; son, Chris Geiger; her grandchildren that she loved to the moon and back, Scott and Victoria Trenchard; and her stepchildren, Chelsea MacKenzie and Ryan MacKenzie.

“Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into 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 so fondly together 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 in your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that 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 round the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before.  How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!”