Shortly after midnight on December 23, 1926, Ingelene Emilie Christiane de Boer was born to Kaufmann Walter Reinhard Christian Gustav de Boer and his wife Helene Anna Elisabeth Roesch de Boer at a snow-dusted maternity clinic in Hamburg, Germany. She was 89 when she departed this life July 30, 2016 at her Holly Court apartment in Kilmarnock. She grew up playing with elder brothers, Walther, now deceased, and Hans, who lives in Germany. She learned to love nature helping her father water his tree roses, fruit trees and shrubs and vacationing at the beach on the island of Borkum. She treasured memories of the German two-day Christmas with its candle-lit tree and baked her special kloeben bread each holiday. She was 6 when Hitler rose to power. The siblings loved the sports and camping aspects of the compulsory Hitler Youth, but grew up, unbeknownst to each other and their parents, to become part of the youth resistance to the Nazis, a topic she discussed at schools and with civic groups and wrote about in a book. When air raids closed schools, she went to boarding school in Gernrode, where she refused to join the Nazi party and was expelled from the Hitler Youth.She was evacuated during the Terror Nights of Allied bombing of Hamburg in 1943, when her home was destroyed. She did forced labor, which she sabotaged, in a V-1 rocket factory, which she fled as the Russians advanced. After the war, she became a medical technologist, immigrated to America in 1958, and became a U.S. citizen in 1965. She also had lived in Philadelphia, Waynesboro, Salt Lake City, White Stone and Glen Allen. She was skilled in the needlework arts, loved animals, was an avid hiker and camper who had been a dedicated leader with the Boy Scouts of America and was Oma to children of all ages. She dedicated her life to serving the mentally challenged, teaching swimming and organizing social activities for them.She was a faithful member of the Kilmarnock Branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and had served a church mission in Germany. She was an avid genealogist and served faithfully in the Washington, D.C. Temple. She also was preceded in death by a son, James Hans Cross.Besides her brother and son, survivors include two daughters, Christina Cross Davis of Oxford, Miss., and Elisabeth Cross Peterson of Henrico; four grandchildren, two step grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A viewing will be at 10 a.m. and a funeral at 11 a.m. August 5 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 51 Devil's Bottom Road in Kilmarnock. A graveside service will be at 11 a.m. August 6 in Riverview Cemetery in Waynesboro. Family will receive friends afterwards at The Waynesboro Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2824 Jefferson Lane. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial donations be made to the Special Olympics, 1133 19th Street N W, 12th Floor, Washington, DC 20036-3604.