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BOONVILLE, Ind. - Cletus (Birdie) Ingram Sr., 86, died
Sat., February 27, 2010, at Woodmont Health Campus in Boonville.
Birdie retired in 1988 from Lynnville Mine and was a member of UMWA
Local 9926. He was a member of Wayside Chapel Church in Chandler.
Birdie was a WWII U.S. Army Veteran and a member of the 82nd Airborne
Div. He was a POW for 7 months in 1944 in Germany. He received the
Purple Heart.
Birdie was a life member of Boonville American Legion Post 200 and life
member of Boonville VFW Post 3418.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Marjorie E. Ingram in 2007,
brothers, Raymond, Curtis, Joe and Jack Ingram, a sister, Opal Leslie,
and a son, Robert D. Ingram in 1972.
Birdie is survived by son,
Cletus Ingram Jr.; a sister, Dorothy Meyer; a brother, Charles Ingram,
all of Boonville; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral service 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at Koehler Funeral Home
Boonville Chapel. Burial in Folsomville Cemetery with military rites by
the Warrick County Veterans Memorial Services.
Friends may call from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. Monday and from 9 a.m. until
service time Tuesday at Koehler Funeral Home Boonville Chapel.
Memorial contributions in memory of Birdie may be made to Wayside Chapel
Church. Condolences and any special remembrance may be made online
at www.koe hlerfuneralhome.com.
(Evansville Courier & Press, Evansville, IN, 28 Feb 2010,
Page B4 - courtesy of Tedd Cocker)
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courtesy of Karen Nance) |
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Grave marker for Cletus Ingram, Sr. in the Folsomville
Cemetery, Folsomville (Warrick County), Indiana.
The face of the stone is engraved with the vital dates
for both he and his wife Marjorie who predeceased him.
The obverse side, however, has the typical Veterans
Administration bronze plaque attesting to the fact that he was awarded
the Purple Heart and that he had been a POW.
The temporary supports holding the recently cemented
plaque have obscured the last line. |
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