Audrey Eleanor Hinchey

After a battle with cancer, Audrey Eleanor Hinchey passed away Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at the Johnson Memorial Hospital in Gimli. Audrey was born July 28, 1936 in Winnipeg to Joe and Elsie Schultz. She was married to Jack Hinchey on August 7, 1954 and for 60 blissful years their love endured.

Audrey lived a charmed life in many ways. Married only weeks after turning eighteen she began her family just a year later. By the age of twenty, she was living in a brand new house on Greene Avenue, which would soon be home to three more children.

Blessed with a wonderful self-deprecating sense of humour, Audrey always made friends easily and kept them throughout her life. Whether it was her oldest friends, her neighbours from East Kildonan, or her friends from Arnes, Audrey was beloved and will surely be missed.

Audrey always prided herself in keeping her house clean and she was one of the few people in the world whose greatest pleasure was paying her bills. A stay-at-home mom for many years, Audrey provided her children with the much appreciated experience of coming home from school for lunch and being greeted with a smile, tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich. She continued being there for lunch even after she returned to work as the secretary for the River East Continuing Education Program—a job she throughly enjoyed until her retirement in 1990 when she and Jack sold their house on Greene Avenue and moved permanently to their cabin in Silver Harbour.

Dependable, and always generous with her affection, Audrey is survived by her husband of 60 years, Jack, her four children, Eileen Tissot (Gerry), Janet Shaw (Don), Laura Wills (Roy) and Jordan Hinchey (Jennifer), her brother Clifford Schultz (Mary-Ellen) as well as 9 grand children, 7 great grand children, nieces, nephews and countless friends.

A memorial service celebrating Audrey’s life will be held in Winnipeg on Saturday, September 13, 2014 at 2:00 PM at Klassen Funeral Home, 1897 Henderson Hwy. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the charity of one’s choice.