Marie-Claire von Hausmann (1910-2010) 8) Sabine Mabarai

It is with profound sadness that we announce
the passing of guild member Marie-Claire
von Hausmann (née de Witte) on Mar. 4,
2010, a week after her 100th birthday. She
passed. away peacefully at Marion Hospice in
Vancouver surrounded by her family. She is
predeceased by her husband Michel, daughter
Dominique and grandson Shin-Do. She will
be thoroughly missed by her children Jean-
Francois Mabardi (Denise Stevens) from
Belgium, Sabine Mabardi (Ralph Stanton)
from Vancouver, grandchildren Veronika,
Johanna, Jean-Christophe, Mischa and Robin,
seven great grandchildren, nephews, nieces
and other relatives and all her good friends.

Marie-Claire was born, Feb. 25, 1910. She
was raised in Belgium, but lived in England
during WW/1, studied social work and then
art in Italy. A love of archeology took her to
Egypt in the early thirties, where she married
and had her children. She went back to
Belgium in 1959 and, finally, immigrated to
Canada in 1963, where she lived another 47
years. In B.C., she discovered her passion and.
became a potter and a long-time member of
the Potters Guild of BC (BC Potters Guild
Newsletter, July/August 2007).

She and her husband spent many happy years
on Galiano Island where she was a potter and
owner of the Earthen Things, a gallery started
in Richmond which, on Galiano, featured her
work and the paintings, etchings and ceramics
of many Galiano artists. When she was not

making ceramics, she played tennis, golf and
bridge, she swam and tended the roses in her
lovely gardens and entertained her family
and friends in her house at Sturdies Bay and
then on Shopland Drive. In 1980, she was
mentioned in an article in The Weekend Sun
Magazine (The Women of Galiano, Dec. 13,
1980) alongside friends and fellow artists she
admired such as Elizabeth Hopkins, Audrey
Thomas, Arla Saar and Dorothy Livesay who
honoured Marie-Claire in one of her poems.
In July 1991, she had a retrospective of her
work at the Dandelion Gallery (Glossy Depths
in Island Tides, July 18, 1991) at the age of 81!
In her nineties, she wrote and illustrated three
books for her great grandchildren, inspired by
her life on Galiano.

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She was buried Mar. 14 beside her husband
in the beautiful and serene Galiano cemetery, a
little corner of paradise, under the trees facing
the ocean, and with the birds she loved.

The family wishes to offer their sincere
thanks to the staff at Millenium Tower and
Marion Hospice in Vancouver for their warm
caring for Marie-Claire and her family.

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