LAMBERMONT, Ingrid Gerlinde Dewald - (May 12, 1932 - April 22, 2020) -
Ingrid Gerlinde Dewald Lambermont was born in Den Haag, Holland on May 12, 1932 to Friedrich (Fritz) Ludwig Peter Dewald and Johanna Radersma Dewald.
Together with Erica, her older sister, Ingrid (known as “Binkie” to her family) grew up in a household filled with music, art, literature and philosophy.
Her father was a renaissance man—an architect by trade, he played the violin and the clarinet, enjoyed reading and writing philosophical works, carved beautiful art pieces out of wood, and encouraged his daughters in many creative endeavours.
When Ingrid was eight years old WWII broke out and the family had to adapt to the deeply challenging conditions of living in an occupied country. One of Ingrid’s jobs was to take care of the goats that provided their milk. Their hometown of Zeist was liberated by Canadian troops just days before Ingrid’s thirteenth birthday and she was thrilled to receive chocolate from the soldiers for the occasion.
Ingrid met the love of her life, Jan Peter Lambermont, on a skating rink in February 1950. They were married in Zeist on February 24, 1955 and went to Luxembourg in a rented Volkswagen for their honeymoon. Their daughter, Jeannette Monique, was born on New Year’s Eve 1956, and six months later the trio emigrated to Canada. Their second child, Michael Frederik was born in Toronto on May 14, 1958. The little family moved frequently as better opportunities presented themselves, and eventually settled in Galt, Ontario where their third child, Brant Seymour, was born on June 9, 1965. Soon they were on the move again, settling in Montreal, Ottawa and eventually Toronto again.
While raising her family, Ingrid stayed active in many creative and artistic pursuits. She made pottery, created sewing patterns, made clothes, wrote plays, stories and poems, and enjoyed sketching and water-colour painting. “Hand in Hand”, a collection of her children’s poems and illustrations was published in 2018.
Ingrid was very close to her three children and actively encouraged them in their own artistic and career pursuits. She was a proud grandmother to Alexander Nelson Lambermont, Jack Llewellyn Lambermont and Micaela Johannah Lambermont Morey.
In 2008 Ingrid was invited to the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa to tell the astonishing tale of how, at 12 years old during the war, she found, in her back yard, after a plane went down, an RCAF airman’s cap. In 1998, through a series of fortuitous events, Ingrid found the owner of the cap, Canadian ex-POW Bob Porter, and was able, after 55 years, to return it to him in a ceremony at her home in Mississauga, Ontario.
Ingrid is survived by her loving husband, three children, three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Arrangments with Ridley funeral home, Etobicoke.
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