About 200 people attended the memorial service for country music star Mindy McCready’s Tuesday in her hometown of Fort Myers.
McCready’s family, friends and fans gathered at Crossroads Baptist Church. They to paid respect to the embattled 37-year-old country music star that took her own life a little more than a week ago.
McCready had been struggling with substance abuse for years. Her boyfriend, and the father of one of her children, is believed to have taken his own life just a month before.
McCready’s mother Gayle Inge shared fond memories.
“Mindy has known since the time she could talk what her purpose was,” she says. “She flowed in it. She did it with ease. She wanted to sing since the time she was a little girl putting on concerts and selling tickets to the neighbors. She wanted to be a singer. She had a microphone from the time they had them for little children and she did pursue her dream.”
McCready was known for her hit songs in the 90s, which include “Guys Do It All The Time” and “Ten Thousand Angels,” which her stepfather Michael Inge memorialized at the service.
“She sang a song years ago about 10,000 angels watching over her,” he says, “and now she is in the presence of those 10,000 angels.”
