Obituary of Mrs. Ingrid Dearing
Ingrid Diana Dearing March 19, 1930 – February 10, 2024
On Saturday February 10th, our mom left us just 38 days shy of her 94th birthday. Born in the UK nine years before the outbreak of WWII, our mom had an interesting early life to say the least. Her mother (Ragnhild G. Woldike 1904-1990) was a Danish nanny and her father (George Watts 1902-1940) was an English merchant mariner.
Moving to the London suburb of Edmonton following the loss of her father in the North Atlantic in 1940, mom lived through The Blitz and had many stories about bombs going off and their townhouse falling in around them but she survived. After the end of hostilities, her mother married a Canadian soldier (RCE Earl Teskey 1919-2015) who adopted mom and became her step father. The family moved to Newmarket, ON in 1947.
While working for Canadian DND in the early 1950’s, our mom met our father, Lawrence Ross Dearing (1927-2005) and the couple made it official on Saturday October 9, 1954. They were married for 50 years until Dad’s passing in April 2005. They had 5 children, Kathleen (b.1955), Janet (1958-2011), Alan (1961-2009), Elizabeth (1963-1980) and Steven (b.1965).
Mom will be missed by her granddaughters Maya (Janet) and Katie (Steven), her daughter in-law Dawna (Steven), her large extended family and her many friends & neighbours. A fixture of her Agincourt community for over 50 years, mom was active in her senior’s group, quilting guild, garden club and was previously a long-time volunteer at the Stephen Leacock C.I. library.
We are grateful to the small army of support workers who helped allow our mom to live on her own and in her house until the very end. Her only desire in her golden years was to stay in the house her and our dad made a home for so many years. That would have been impossible without her PSW’s, housekeeper, gardener and landscaper.
We are grateful to the kind doctors and nurses at SHN – Birchmount Hospital for their years of care and compassion. This was mom’s local hospital and she spent a few nights there over the last few years but she always left feeling better than when she arrived.
Lastly, we are grateful to the paramedics with Toronto Paramedic Services who tried to resuscitate mom on the way to the hospital. In the end, it was her time and there no way she could be saved.
Though slowed by osteo arthritis and a bad hip, our mom was in good health and great spirits up until she drew her last breath and for that, we are supremely grateful.
Preparations for a Celebration of Life are under way. We will post with update.
Thank you,
Kathleen & Steven Dearing
