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Andy McCready
Ingeborg's Step-Son
Ingeborg "Inge" Elfrieda McCREADY
October 4th, 1928 - September 18th, 2024
October 4th, 1928 - September 18th, 2024
Inge McCready of Nanaimo, BC was born in Berlin, Germany the daughter of the late Paul Herfert and the late Klara Schonfelder.
Inge and her first husband, Friedrich Allmansberger, raised their two children, Christine and Barbara, in Thannhausen, Bavaria, Germany. In July 1969 Inge, accompanied by her daughter Barbara, bravely emmigrated to Canada to make a new life.
On arrival, she went to work for her brother, Gunter Herfert, at his store in downtown Winnipeg: German Canadian Meat Market. On her second day of work there she met her life partner, Emmanuel (Ed) McCready ( https://www.mykeeper.com/EdMcCready ), across the counter. Ed was smitten and helped her to learn English by reading ‘Peanuts’ comics with her. In September 1970 they married. Their union lasted for 50 years until his death on 19 November 2020.
When Ed retired in 1979 they moved to Birds Hill in the countryside North of Winnipeg and took up commercial beekeeping. Inge supported the apiary community in Winnipeg by volunteering on the Board of the Manitoba Beekeepers Association. In 1987 Ed and Inge moved to the warmer climate of Nanaimo, BC.
Inge was a good person! She was kind, thoughtful and accepting of people. Of course this meant that she was very family oriented and had a circle of close friends. She had a contagious laugh and had sweet German nicknames for those she loved. She was a warm and inviting host for her fantastic cooking – so good that she taught a cooking class for the Winnipeg School Division. Those recipes are amongst our favorites.
Her niece Jeanette Scott (Herfert) was a great support to Inge in her last years, visiting regularly. Family and friends all thought highly of her, loved her and respected her views on life.
Inge will be missed.
Inge was sadly preceded in death by her two daughters Christine FIEDLER (Hans) of Thannhausen, Germany, and Barbara ALLMANSBERGER of Vancouver, British Columbia; and by her brother Horst HERFERT (Erica) of Berlin.
She is survived by five siblings, Ruth MILLER of San Antonio, Texas, Günter HERFERT (Helga) of Nanaimo, Christa STRASSENBURG (Reiner) of Kirchenlamitz, Bavaria, Peter HERFERT (Irma) of Chilliwack, B.C., and Monica SEINHOLZ of Weilheim, Bavaria; granddaughter, Alexandra AGERER (Walter); great granddaughter, Nina AGERER and great great grandson (Toni AGERER), and many nieces and nephews.
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Andy McCready
Andy McCready
I got to know Inge slowly after she and Dad married. It was a period of great change and turmoil for me: living independently, first professional job, completing undergraduate studies – then moving to Toronto for work and graduate school. For Dad too – he retired early, moved to Birds Hill, took up bee-keeping with Inge – then moved to Nanaimo in 1987. There were few visits in those years. Only when our young family settled in Alberta and we began annual camping visits to Vancouver and Nanaimo, to ensure our children knew their grandparents, did we begin to spend good time together. I came to understand that Inge was the best thing that ever happened to Dad. He was reserved, intellectual and ‘in his head’; Inge was calm, steady, friendly and outgoing. They were a good balance. They were a true love story. Inge became integral to McCready family life. She cared for Grandmother McCready in Winnipeg. When I took up an interest in family history, while Dad was not very engaged, Inge could remember everything that Grandmother had to say about her life. I learned more about our family from her than from Dad. Inge was a good person: nonjudgmental and caring. I recollect early on in Winnipeg Inge saying, after some family drama: “why can’t people just love each other?” Inge was interested in other people; she was sociable and outgoing. She had a good network of friends and she gathered with them regularly. She was a gracious and welcoming hostess. When our family visited she and Dad entertained us with day trips to various spots in Nanaimo and region: Piper’s Lagoon, Neck Point, Nanaimo Harbour, Chemainus, Old Country market with its goats on the roof, Mount Washington, butterfly world, parrot world and more. Good memories! Back at their home, she was an excellent cook and her meals were superb. Our children fondly called her ‘Grandma Inge’ – and tellingly they referred to Dad as ‘Grandpa Inge’. At one point when I accompanied Inge to a medial appointment, I replied to the attending nurse that Inge was my Mother. Although I received a skeptical look – that’s what I felt. Inge knew that. – Andy McCready
Carol Hutchings
Inge and Ed were a love story. They kissed whenever they walked out the door and when they walked they held hands. They cared for each other deeply. Inge was a kind and loving companion to Ed and she had lovely endearing names for Ed that were half German, half English. She wanted little for herself. She was generous with others but, I don’t remember seeing her buy anything for herself. She was a no nonsense practical person with little time for trivial matters. She didn’t judge others and accepted people as they were. She had lived through the war, knew hardship and how to stretch a penny. Every time I saw her I learned something else about cooking/canning. I think of her as I make my jams and poppy seed cake. One of the things she enjoyed most of all was looking out the window of her condo and watching the ships go by, and the birds and the ocean. I think she was very happy in the condo with Ed. She was a strong person but had some very debilitating health problems. She never complained about the pain her arthritis must have caused her over the years, nor the blindness that shrunk her world. She had a contagious laugh and loved to tell the story of how she and Ed met. Her stories were always sprinkled with delicious sounding German words. Inge had a relationship with Jackson and Tim who visited her on several occasions. She was always happy to hear short videos of the little boys playing the piano she and Ed gave to Heather. Inge was thrilled to hear that Andrew and Liz were having a baby and we were so happy she lived to hear the news that they had a little boy. Inge was a lovely person who made the world a better place.
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