Candace A. Immer

Candace Anne Drimmer née Boggs, was born in Princeton, New Jersey on December 21st, 1949. The youngest of three children, Candace moved to Houston with her family where she went to Memorial High School and was an active leader in the marching band.
Her early life gradually opened to a world of travel and adventure, having met Gary Drimmer at the University of Georgia where they both studied. The star crossed lovers- he a Jewish boy from New York by way of Peru and she a southern girl with evangelical Christian parents- were clearly meant to be and she was smitten from the time he stood on her glasses and made good by buying a replacement pair.
Candace finished a degree with a dual major in Journalism and Theater, leaving North America for the first time to join Gary in Lima, Peru. While there she worked as a teacher at Roosevelt School eventually becoming engaged to Gary as well.
They had two weddings, once in Peru, once in the States, starting a trend in their marriage of adventure and discovery. They went on to live in Arizona, South Dakota, Canada (where their daughter Jennie was born), Paraguay, Connecticut (where their son Josh was born), Puerto Rico, Curacao, Ecuador, Connecticut, Mexico, St. Louis, Chicago, and ultimately Northampton, MA. Some stops were better than others—the less said about Paraguay, the better—but her world and perspective expanded. Candace found herself in many ways along the way. Favorite pursuits during this period included scuba diving, volunteering in various guises (including washing and cleaning the dead through taharah rituals) and holding epic tag sales when moving.
She was a writer published in national magazines and her own blog, an amateur actor (favorite roles included Maria in ‘The Sound of Music’), a loving mother, a doting grandmother, a dog mama and adopter of strays, and skeptic (tender-hearted as any skeptic could be). She loved dark humor, dark chocolate, movie scores by Waxman, Mancini, Hermann and Quincy Jones, the Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories, and Hitchcock movies. A gregarious introvert, she found friends wherever she journeyed, friends who attached to her warmth, curiosity, directness and wit. She will be missed by all those she made laugh and all those she made think.
Candace passed away on February 22, 2024 from consequences of ovarian cancer. She is survived by her husband of 51 years, Gary, her brother Kenneth, her children Jennie and Josh and their spouses Dan and Christine, her grandsons Ethan, Theo, and Luca, and her 18 nieces and nephews. There will be a Celebration of her Life on Thursday, May 30, 2024 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Smith College Conference Center, 49 College Lane, Northampton, MA. 01060. Donations are welcome in lieu of flowers to Doctors Without Borders, P.O. Box 5030, Hagerstown, MD. 21741-5030