Vern Broe passed on yesterday August 27th. I met Vern in 1959. Friends of mine I had met in Europe were visiting me in Boston and we ran into Vern at the fog Museum in Cambridge. They knew each other from the Art Institute in IL. Vern was looking for a place to live and there were rooms at the rooming house I was living in on Newbury St. Vern moved in and we became friends. It is through Vern that I met and married Charlie. Charlie and I bought a house in Newburyport. and a couple of years latter Vern bought a house on Cherry St. in Newburyport. Charlie and i visited him quite a lot. He was the kind of person you could drop in on and spend a couple of hours talking. I made many sketches of Vern's studio. In 1984 Charlie and I bought a house in Waldoboro ME and not long after that Vern bought a house in Richmond Maine. Charlie and I didn't see Vern very much after we moved to Maine, but I thought of him often. I visited Vern in the spring on my way back from Amesbury where my son lives. He will always be with me. Now he can hang out with Charlie and others in the field of non matter, or wherever spirits go.
This is a painting Vern gave to Charlie and me.
painting by Vern Broe
This is a painting I did of Vern's studio on Cherry street. The large print is by Winslow Homer, one of Vern's favorite painters. After Vern moved to Maine the house he lived in on Cherry St. was torn down.
Vern Broe's Studio
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