Funeral Held for Mindy McCready

Gayle Inge will always remember her daughter as a little girl in a car seat belting tunes into a hairbrush.

Mindy McCready, country music singer and North Fort Myers native, always wanted to be a star, Inge said.

According to the Fort Myers, FL News-Press, Inge addressed a crowd of mourners Tuesday during her daughter’s funeral at Crossroads Baptist Church on Palm Beach Boulevard in Fort Myers.

As a child, McCready charged neighbors admission to watch her perform in the backyard, Inge said.

Friends and family shared countless anecdotes that illuminated McCready’s witty, spunky personality, and showed how much fun they had with her. But they addressed the singer’s darker side as well.

McCready died Feb. 17 in Arkansas of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She was 37.

McCready’s boyfriend David Wilson – father of their infant son, Zayne – died about a month before McCready, also of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Inge said she often texted McCready to comfort her after Wilson’s death. She knew her daughter was in a dark place, and thought and hoped she would come home to Southwest Florida to be with her family.

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