Geri Bemister Death: A Langford family is mourning the death of a member who passed away one year ago today. Interventionist on the TV series Intervention Canada passed away on June 24th at 54. The family announced the tragic incident during an interview last year. I”t is with deep sadness and immense grief that we announce the sudden passing of Geri”.She will be dearly missed by her granddaughter, Aurelia, daughters Jen and Suzi, mother Kathy, father Garry (Diane), sister, Keri, nephews, Noah, Samuel (Laura), Kylen (Abby), great-grandmother Phyllis, brothers Dan and Shayne, and niece Lorraine.
Who Was Geri Bemister?
Geri Bemister was from the Blackfoot Confederacy and was raised in Langford outside of Victoria. Geri Bemister Bemister was a behavioural scientist, business owner, addictions counsellor, and former director of operations at the Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre in Calgary. She has studied the criminal justice system in five countries and is currently a faculty member in the Department of Criminology at Vancouver Island University, a professor in the Department of Criminology at North Island College in Courtenay, and an interventionist on the television show Intervention Canada.
Geri Bemister and her father practised windmill pitches 100 times per day. She was a standout pitcher for her fastball club, which competed regularly in regional finals. She even practiced alongside the national team.
Fastball was one of the numerous sports she excelled in. It was also her haven. It was a place where she could turn off her brain for a few hours and exist in the present now, away from the noise, rage, and trauma of being sexually molested by trusted relatives from the ages of five to thirteen. Bemister was unable to drink by her early thirties due to liver failure. Cocaine misuse progressed to heroin addiction, and her weight dropped to 97 pounds.
Geri Bemister’s life altered when her mother and sister arrived at her home with a pen and paper. They instructed her to put down the names of those she wanted at her burial. It caught her off guard, and something changed; following that experience, Geri Bemister focused solely on the positive aspects of life.
Geri Bemister Cancer
Bemister was diagnosed with cancer while in treatment, and eventually had both her breasts removed. While she admits the loss challenged her sobriety, she remained motivated and continued to seek help and educate herself. As part of her journey, Bemister began to reconnect with her First Nations heritage — something that was never part of her upbringing. She researched and traced her ancestry to the Siksika Nation from the Blackfoot Confederacy and reached out to elders and people in ceremonies who helped her reconnect with relatives.