Ingrid Sybil Webber

Ingrid Sybil (Stippa) Webber October 15, 1930 – October 6, 2014 Ingrid Webber was born on October 15, 1930 in the Bronx, New York City. She passed away on October 6, 2014, in East Wenatchee. She was born to Oswald and Irene Stippa of Germany and New York, and was blessed with three siblings, two older and one younger. Ingrid lived a full and charismatic life - she was a committed woman of God, ardent school and church volunteer, actor, dancer, and happy homemaker. Ingrid attended an art and dance high school in New York City and was accepted to the Harkness Ballet Company, but turned that down for the more acceptable career of nursing. She attended Nurses Training at Fordham Hospital in New York City, and received training for midwifery and birth, which held a special place in her heart. Ingrid felt drawn to missionary work, and went on to study the Bible and the Indonesian language at Prairie Bible Institute in Alberta, Canada. In 1958, Ingrid proudly took the Queen Mary to London, where she transferred to smaller ships and arrived in Borneo, Indonesia, to work with the native peoples as a midwife and Bible teacher. During Ingrid’s first furlough from Borneo in 1969, she met her husband, Emory “Tim” Webber, who had two grown daughters, and was a widower. Tim and Ingrid were married in May, 1970 and had one daughter, Joy (Webber) Margolis in 1972. Ingrid didn’t return to Borneo until the 1990s, when she went with a reunion group to visit the people she had worked with nearly 30 years before. Ingrid worked hard selling apples at Pike Street Market, drying and canning fruit, tending to a large garden and hosting many friends and strangers in their Cashmere home. Ingrid loved to bike and rode 100 miles in one day to support research for MS. She loved swimming, camping, hiking, and birding. She walked daily up her beloved Yaksum Canyon, where she never stopped marveling at the beauty surrounding her and how far she was from her home in the Bronx, New York City. She is survived by her husband, Tim Webber; siblings Anitra Christoffel-Pell and Oz Stippa; children, Cheryl (Jerry) Miller, Cindy (Bill) Mello, and Joy (Greg) Margolis; grandchildren, Bonnie Meloy, Kellie Potter, Ryan Luebber, Alyson Mello, Gerry (Kari) Keating, Chad Miller, Max and Zella Margolis; as well as many great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and cousins. A Memorial Service will be held Wednesday, October 8 at 11 a.m. at Jones & Jones-Betts Memorial Chapel in Wenatchee, followed by a short graveside service at Evergreen Cemetery in Cashmere. The family welcomes all to attend a Celebration of Ingrid’s Amazing Life in the meeting space at Cashmere United Methodist Church, 213 S. Division Street, Cashmere directly following the graveside service. Please express your thoughts and memories on the online guest book at jonesjonesbetts.com. Arrangements are by Jones & Jones-Betts Funeral Home.

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Ingrid Sybil Webber

October 15, 1930 - October 6, 2014