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Herb and Janet Barge's Genealogy and Family Web Site! |
           
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Janet Janet was born and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. As a child she studied both Piano and Dance. As a youth she participated in Girl Guides. After graduating from Gladstone High School in 1958, she trained as a nurse at Vancouver General Hospital, and since graduation has worked as a Registered Nurse, mostly in Senior Care facilities. She is registered with the Alberta Registered Nurses Association. She is now Retired. She now likes to play Golf, to Geocache and is an avid Gardener. It is with sorrow we report Janet passed away November 17, 2025 from Alzheimer Disease. Herb Herb was born in Saskatchewan and moved to Vancouver at age twelve. As a Youth he participated in Boy Scouts and Air Cadets. After graduating from Gladstone High School in 1956, he enrolled in the B.C. Institute of Technolgy in Aeronautical Engineering. Completing this course he worked for a number of years in the aircraft maintenance industry, before leaving that field and going into the Petroleum Marketing Equipment industry, where he works today as a business manager. He was also in the Airforce Auxiliary as a Fighter Controller and Trainer and was transfered to the Supplementary Reserve as a Sargeant in 1961 when his squadron closed. He has been a Scout Leader with Scouts Canada for over 40 Years, in a viariety of local, Regional, Provincial and National Roles. He was awarded Scouts Canada's highest award for service, the Silver Wolf, and most recently the Queen's Golden Jubilee Comemorative Medal. Herb has now retired from Scouting and is semi-retired from work. His hobbies are Genealogy, Golf, Geocaching and Web Site design. Together Herb and Janet were married in 1962, and since then have lived in Vancouver, Burnaby and Port Coquitlam, British Columbia; and in Calgary and Redwood Meadows, Alberta, and now Sechelt, BC. |