Irmgard Rudy
1923 - 2011
Irmgard Rudy was born March 6, 1923 in Friedrichsthal, Germany. She was known to many as just Irm. She was the youngest of three girls. Her father always wanted a son, so Irm became the son he never had. She joined the army during the war and worked in an ammunition factory. Irm always said they were the poorest but best times because she made friends there for life. After the war in 1947 she married Hans Klicker. In 1949 a daughter Sigrid was born and in 1952 a son Joe.
Our father always wanted to immigrate to Canada but not Irm. She thought if she got on that big ship it would sink. Three times dad tried to convince her to go to Canada and in 1962 the four of us finally arrived in Hamilton, Ont. She only lived there a couple of years when the marriage fell apart and Irm moved to Snow Lake Manitoba and married Gunter Rudy. They lived up north for quite a few years until the mine closed and they had to move on to Hope BC, to Chilliwack BC and when Gunter got ill they moved to Duncan on Vancouver Island. Gunter died in 1993 and Irm stayed there for 10 years. It was never hard for Irm to make friends and she made a lot of them.
Her daughter Sigrid moved to Sunset Prairie BC in 1991 and married Peter Bonderud and son Joe wife Josie and Kids followed to Tumbler Ridge shortly after. 10 years of 24 hour bus trips back and forth we convinced our mother to move to Dawson Creek. She moved to Heritage Heights in 2003 and never looked back. She had a passion for Crossword puzzles, cooking. crocheting and playing cards in the activity room once week until her eyesight started to deteriorate. She made many special friends there. Irm spend many weekends at the farm in Sunset Prairie and Tumbler Ridge. She was the mother of Sigrid (Peter Bonderud), Joe (Josie Schmitt), she was Oma to Michael Schaefer, Paul Schaefer, and Ingrid Marx. She was Urli (great grand mother) to Nicholas Disher, Nana to Bailey, Gary, Kai, Deanna,
Grandma to Tina, Jonathan, Tanya,
Julianna and Mathew.
Irm was loved by many and will be sadly missed but remembered for a lifetime.
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