Freda Edith Violette Macklin was born on October 31st, 1929 in a rural area outside of Dodsland, Saskatchewan, Canada. For the first 16 years of her life, her family relied on a horse-drawn cart as their only means of transportation. She and her three sisters rode the cart to attend a two-room school house with a total of around ten to fifteen students. Freda excelled in algebra in school. When her two oldest sisters went on to continue their education, Freda and her next younger sister stayed home to help work the farm. Up before daylight to milk the cows, feed the chickens, harness a horse, hook up the cart, go to school, use a pitchfork to throw down hay from the hayloft for the horses, and ride the thresher to help neighbors bring in their crops. Whether helping maintain the large family garden or taking care of the livestock, life was hard yet very rewarding for Freda. In 1945 her family moved to a ranch near Warner, Alberta, just north of the border from Montana.

In 1952 Freda met her future husband, Charlie Shade, while attending an older sister's wedding anniversary celebration. They were married three months later and she became Freda Shade. They were married for almost twenty-five years and had six children together. Today Freda has eight grandchildren and "too many to count" great and great-great-grandchildren. A few years before they were married, Freda's future husband had passed through California on a trip and then, after they were married, told her that "if we ever move again, it will be to California." Finally, in 1957 they did move to California and she's been here ever since. Her husband had steady work as a carpenter building houses. Twenty years later, her husband, who was twenty years her senior, died in 1977. At the time Freda had already been volunteering at the VFW for years, helping in their kitchen and serving meals. Then when the Fallbrook Senior Center opened she began working at the Baptist Church kitchen, where the senior meals were being served. When the Congregate Meals program moved to the Community Center in 1981, Freda moved too and has volunteered/ worked at both the Senior Center and the VFW until she finally retired in 2016 at the age of 87.

One of her greatest pleasures in life was watching her children grow up and teach their own children how to be good, responsible adults. Her other great pleasure was her love of volunteering, which she did for over sixty years. She loved playing bingo and was well known for her pumpkin pies at the holidays. She was also famous for her Rhubarb Jam that she would make and sell as a fundraiser for the senior meal program.

Freda passed away on January 9, 2022 at the age of 92. She was preceeded in death by her husband Charles W.Shade (1977), her parents and her three sisters.

She is survived by her six children Fred Shade, Susan Yoder, Patsy Gervais, Charles L. Shade, James Shade, Sally Sutter, as well as many grandchildren, great- grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.

A service for Freda will be at 12:00pm Friday, January 21, 2022 at Berry-Bell & Hall Mortuary, 333 North Vine St. in Fallbrook. Interment will be at Eternal Hills in Oceanside with a Private Family Service.

The family asks that in lieu of flowers please make donations to the Fallbrook Senior Center and/or the Fallbrook VFW Post #1924 in her name.