Carol Ann Dibble

It is with broken hearts that we announce the passing of Carol Ann Dibble of Bear River. A wonderful spirit has left this world. After a courageous battle with the terrible disease of ALS, she died peacefully in Digby General Hospital on Wed, June 12, 2019.

Born in Digby on Sept 3rd, 1953 to parents Jack and Barbara (Hatfield) Dibble, she grew up mainly in Cornwallis, Dartmouth and Ottawa. She loved spending happy summers with her Hatfield clan in Port Greville, near Parrsboro, and enjoyed returning there each August for the past several years to celebrate family. She travelled extensively throughout Europe and Mexico with her first husband, Jim Langley.

She fell in love with the village of Bear River as soon as she arrived in 1974, and has made it her home ever since. Always enthusiastically involved with community activities, she was a member of the Bear River Board of Trade and Music Society, devoting countless hours to work parties and committees, ending off with co-chairing the Greenhouse Committee that resulted in the Community Greenhouse being named after her.

She had several careers including Health Food Store Manager, Insurance Underwriter, Career Counsellor, Utilities Clerk at CFB Cornwallis, and certified Waste Water Treatment Plant Operator. She was the first female operator in Nova Scotia and single-handedly operated the first Solar Aquatics Greenhouse treatment plant in North America for 20 years. She was an avid gardener, nature lover, rock hound, beachcomber, artist and lover of music and animals, but she especially loved people. Carol was always kind and generous, especially to new arrivals. She started organizing live music events when she and her friend Kris Murdock brought the band April Wine to Teen Town in Cornwallis and continued throughout the decades.

She was predeceased by her parents and former partner, John Murray and is survived by her loving husband, Neil Brennan; her daughter, Sarah Snider (Nick Cranton); Sarah’s father, Bob Snider; her grandson, Ethan Cranton; stepson, Kailan Armstrong and his daughter Ayla and his father Kim Armstrong. Carol is also survived by adored sister, Cheryl (Paul) Landry; niece, Jennifer Landry; many uncles, aunts, cousins and countless friends near and far.

She loved spending time with family and friends and especially at the off-grid lakeside cottage that she and Neil designed and had built in 2017.

Cremation has taken place under the care of Jayne’s Funeral Home, 7 Birch St. Digby (902-245-2525). A Celebration of her life will be held on Saturday June 15th at 2pm at the Bear River Baptist Church, by her family with Rev Earl Waterman officiating. Reception to follow in the downstairs hall. Share a memory or condolence at www.jaynesfuneralhome.com