Growing up in Berlin, Germany, music and theater were integral to living through challenging times for Ingeborg and the Janz family. Born there in 1925 to Anna Steinweg and Wilhelm Janz, she was the youngest of three children and would live there through the mid-to-late years of the Weimar Republic and the Great Depression, and the turmoil of the Nationalist Socialist period which led to WWII and the eventual devastation of the city she called home.

Her parents had moved to the capital city from nearby Angermuende to provide better opportunities for their children. A musical family, her mother's relatives (Steinweg) included violin makers, vocal and theater performers, and writers. Ingeborg was encouraged to explore her own creative talents through church and school. The family garden was often the place for friends and family to gather for song, accompanied by guitar and accordion.

Ingeborg completed her high school education and earned a business college diploma. She began her professional career as a secretary in a major electronics firm during the WWII years.With bombs falling daily she rode her bike to and from work. That bike, her pride and joy, did not survive advancing Russian troops at the fall of Berlin in spring of 1945. Fortunately, she and her family did in the safety of their home. With the US joint forces occupation of Berlin, Ingeborg's experience and English language skills led to employment with the US military forces engaged with the building of the US Army Command Headquarters and Barracks in the city. There, she met, fell in love and in 1949, married an American soldier, Jose Yarrito, from McAllen, Texas.

Immigrating to the US later in 1949, Inge became a military wife and mother, raising four children, often on her own as her husband was deployed to the Korean War and other military assignments (and later, after his death in 1969). For the next 18 years, some deployments also took the entire family back to Germany and to Washington state, with the home base always in Temple, Texas (where she resided until moving to New Braunfels to be with her son, Fernando in 2023). Two of their children, Fernando and Michael, would later attend Texas Lutheran College (TLU) and graduate in 1972 and 1976, respectively.

Inge's early familiarity with TLU came through her exposure to the institution as the church secretary at First Lutheran Church in Temple. She later worked at (Baylor) Scott & White Hospital there, retiring not once, but twice, at age 85 in 2010 and again at 89 in 2014.

A scholarship was established at TLU in 2019 by her son, Fernando, in celebration of her 95th birthday (1.19.2020) - to honor her courage and determination through the years to provide the best she could for her children. This scholarship recognized the joy she added to the lives of her children and grandchildren, especially through enjoyment of song. Although neither son chose to be Fine Arts majors at TLU, she encouraged and supported their participation in choral music and theater to enrich their total learning experience. At the time of the endowment dedication Fernando noted that singing in the choir and performing on stage provided experiences that connected him to Texas Lutheran in a way that remained vital to his relationship with the university. "Honoring my mother with this endowment enables me to share her love for music and theater with others now, and in perpetuity"

Inge is preceded in death by her parents and siblings, husband Jose and her son, Mario.

She is survived by her sons, Fernando and Michael (Kathy) and daughter, Carmen (Lee); grandchildren, Jason, Angela & Frankie, and Alexandra; great-grandchildren, Christian, Gabriel and Jacob.

A Visitation will be held at the Doeppenschmidt Funeral Home chapel in New Braunfels, TX on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 from 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, April 24 2025 at 11:00 AM at the Doeppenschmidt Funeral Home chapel. Burial will follow at 1:00 PM at the Guadalupe Valley Memorial Park cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks you to consider making a memorial gift to the Ingeborg Janz Yarrito Scholarship at Texas Lutheran University (Seguin) or Headwaters at the Comal in New Braunfels, Texas.