RUTH FREED

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RUTH FREED Ruth Freed passed away at the Health Sciences Centre on the morning of February 17, 2018. Left to mourn her passing are children, Stephen Freed (Candice) and Gayle Freed (Gerald Stevenson), grandchildren, Noah Stern (Ronit), Marissa Shinewald (Michael), Jonathon Freed, (fiancé Genevieve Bergman) and Jacob Freed, all of whom she took an avid interest in, and her beloved great-grandchildren, Tyler, Isaiah, Ely, and Ruby. She was predeceased by her loving husband Joe on August 29, 2017, five short months ago. Ruth graduated from Kelvin High having moved from College Avenue and St. John's High School when she was 16 to the family's Wellington Crescent home. But her heart remained in the North End of Winnipeg where she skated on the community club rink and the "lit up rink" in front of Drewery's on Redwood and Main. She spoke nostalgically of the speed skates that her father bought for her on Chanuka and with which she became a competitive speed skater. Ruth was a natural athlete. She played tennis extending her time on the courts till she was 85. She at different times in her life, skated, bowled, played badminton, tennis and golf and played them all well. Her beloved Joe, walked and drove the Glendale greens with her and relished her natural bent for the game. Ruth and Joe 'cut a mean rug'. Elegant and perfectly timed together, they were quite an image on the dance floor for 73 years of married life. They golfed together, dined together and played bridge together. They did everything together. Some of their happiest times were those Palm Springs years when Noah, Marissa, and Jonathon spent vacation time together with their grandparents and with no parents around. Ruth was devoted to family and spent her adult life making food, and serving it, to family and friends on Fridays and holidays. She loved to dress and her closet was a kinetic work of art, pieces moving in and out as she wore them always looking formal, fashionable and and a little exotic. Ruth was beautiful and graceful, she had a sharp wit, and a sharp tongue and her sense of humour and quick repartee charmed and entertained all with whom she engaged. She was loved and attended to by many nephews and nieces, Karen Morton (Paul), Peter Oreck (Carol), Elyan Sures, Ron Sures, Michelle Rath (David), and grandniece Mikaela, Corinne Pulver (Ian), and grandnieces, Joely, and Sierra and grandnephew Dustin, her nephew Gary Sures (Alana), and her grandnieces, Ava Nahla, and her nephew Nathan Sures. Ruth and her sister-in-law Estelle, who also survives her, spent many hours together, over coffee, lunch and/or an afternoon gin and tonic at Ruth's home. Ruth is predeceased by her father and mother, Noah and Mary Sures, brothers, Richard and Lawrence Sures, sister Tabala Oreck and close cousins, Suzanne Rusoff and Dina Sures. She and Joe found comfort and security with their wonderful Annafe Yap who cared for them tenderly and lovingly over their last years. Ruth loved Annafe and expressed her love to her in a way she could do to no other. The family would like to thank cousin Thelma Sures for leading services and Rabbi Alan Green for his kind and perceptive words at graveside.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Feb 24, 2018