Bluff matriarch will be missed
Irmgard Büchler will be remembered as a beloved wife, a committed business partner, a devoted mother to her six children and a dearly loved grandmother and great-grandmother.
Local member of the Catholic Woman’s League and then Crossways Butchery ‘right-hand woman’, Irmgard Büchler, will be sorely missed by all who knew her on the Bluff following her untimely death on Tuesday, 8 January.
Her daughter Ingrid Adriaanse recalled fond memories of helping her mother at Crossways Butchery, which was owned by her father Jakob Büchler and which soon become a family business and household name on the Bluff.
The family often did meat deliveries to several businesses and schools in the area. “My mother was my late father’s most fervent business support. In addition to running most of the everyday duties and deliveries in the butchery, she raised myself and my five siblings,” said Adriaanse.
After the business closed down following the death of Adriaanse’s father in 2007, Irmgard devoted her time to the parish of St Francis Xavier where she joined the Catholic Woman’s League and became the ‘master’ baker of their monthly cake sales, with standing orders for her fruit loaves.
“She thoroughly enjoyed the social get-togethers with the women of the CWL. She will be remembered as the beloved wife of our late father, his constant supporter and business partner and devoted mother to her six children and a dearly loved grandmother and great-grandmother. She was a devout Catholic, a very patient and generous lady, non-critical and always saw the good in people. A true Bluffite to her last,” said Adriaanse lovingly.
