Bertha Carmen Richie
August 12, 1953 — January 3, 2022
BERTHA del CARMEN TERNEUS - RICHIE
BERTHICA, 68 years young, of Boynton Beach Florida, passed away in Delray Hospice Care Center on January 3, 2022.
Born on August 10th 1953, she grew up in Bogota, Colombia. As a teenager, she moved with her family to Quito, Ecuador… her Father’s homeland.
There she graduated as a Bi-Lingual Executive Secretary and joined the Dutch Philips International company for a period of 6 years. She then moved to the Netherlands with her husband, Kees Richie and later onwards they moved to Africa.
Socially very active, she became President of the Women’s International Club, both in Tanzania and in Zambia, Africa, where she spent 14 marvelous years with her family.
Establishing domicile in Florida in 1999, she started a new career at the Polo Park Middle School as English as Second Language Facilitator until her retirement in August 2020.
Berthica will be dearly remembered by her beloved husband of 40 years, her two loving sons, Francisco and Robert, as well as her brothers Fernando, Marcelo, Pablo, and sisters Lucia and Olga Terneus.
A Memorial Mass will be held Wednesday January 5, 2022 at the St.Thomas More Catholic Church, in Boynton Beach, followed by a Funeral Viewing at the Scobee-Combs-Bowden Funeral Home.
Donations may be made in memory of Bertha Richie to the St.Thomas More website
https://www.stmbb.org/online-giving
BERTHICA, 68 years young, of Boynton Beach Florida, passed away in Delray Hospice Care Center on January 3, 2022.
Born on August 10th 1953, she grew up in Bogota, Colombia. As a teenager, she moved with her family to Quito, Ecuador… her Father’s homeland.
There she graduated as a Bi-Lingual Executive Secretary and joined the Dutch Philips International company for a period of 6 years. She then moved to the Netherlands with her husband, Kees Richie and later onwards they moved to Africa.
Socially very active, she became President of the Women’s International Club, both in Tanzania and in Zambia, Africa, where she spent 14 marvelous years with her family.
Establishing domicile in Florida in 1999, she started a new career at the Polo Park Middle School as English as Second Language Facilitator until her retirement in August 2020.
Berthica will be dearly remembered by her beloved husband of 40 years, her two loving sons, Francisco and Robert, as well as her brothers Fernando, Marcelo, Pablo, and sisters Lucia and Olga Terneus.
A Memorial Mass will be held Wednesday January 5, 2022 at the St.Thomas More Catholic Church, in Boynton Beach, followed by a Funeral Viewing at the Scobee-Combs-Bowden Funeral Home.
Donations may be made in memory of Bertha Richie to the St.Thomas More website
https://www.stmbb.org/online-giving
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