Alta Maxine Ingram

December 20, 2023 at 2:10 p.m.


Alta Maxine Ingram, age 94, of Farmersville Ohio, died on Wednesday, December 13, 2023, at her residence.

Alta Maxine Ingram was born to the Rev. Erlie and Lillian Gulley on November 19, 1929, in Metamora.  She would be the first of six children.   She met a young man while attending school in Metamora. When Lowell Ingram returned home from the South Pacific after the war, they were married at Elm Grove Baptist Church. She was 16 years old, he was 20. Job opportunities soon took them to Dayton, Ohio, where they built a nice home out in the country and raised two strapping sons, Mark and Randy. They stayed in this home for the rest of their lives.  Lowell passed away in 1997 and she continued to live out the rest of her days in that same house, planting a wide variety of flowers, gardening, baking, welcoming guests and generally spoiling her eight grandchildren.    

She is survived by a sister, Darnell Aponyi, of Brookville, Ohio, two sons, Mark of New Lebanon, Ohio and Randy (Christine) of West Alexandria, Ohio. Eight grandchildren: David Ingram, of Richmond, Angela Ingram of Jacksonville, Florida,  Shayla Jerdon, of Chandler, Arizona,  Matthew (Catherine) Ingram of Noblesville,   Heather (Chaz) Dudas of Cincinnati,   Virginia (Kyle) Nepomuceno, of Phoenix,   Ashley (Cody) Nussbaum of Jacksonville   and Laura (James) Metz of Brookville, Ohio, along with 11 great-grandchildren with two more on the way.

Services will be held at Grace Community Church, 308 Meadow Lane, Liberty on Friday, December 22nd at 12pm with visitation at 11am until time of the service with Pastor Troy Caudill officiating. Burial will be in West Point Cemetery. For more information, or to send condolences and memories to the family, please visit www.ShowalterBlackwellLong.com.

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Alta Maxine Ingram, age 94, of Farmersville Ohio, died on Wednesday, December 13, 2023, at her residence.

Alta Maxine Ingram was born to the Rev. Erlie and Lillian Gulley on November 19, 1929, in Metamora.  She would be the first of six children.   She met a young man while attending school in Metamora. When Lowell Ingram returned home from the South Pacific after the war, they were married at Elm Grove Baptist Church. She was 16 years old, he was 20. Job opportunities soon took them to Dayton, Ohio, where they built a nice home out in the country and raised two strapping sons, Mark and Randy. They stayed in this home for the rest of their lives.  Lowell passed away in 1997 and she continued to live out the rest of her days in that same house, planting a wide variety of flowers, gardening, baking, welcoming guests and generally spoiling her eight grandchildren.    

She is survived by a sister, Darnell Aponyi, of Brookville, Ohio, two sons, Mark of New Lebanon, Ohio and Randy (Christine) of West Alexandria, Ohio. Eight grandchildren: David Ingram, of Richmond, Angela Ingram of Jacksonville, Florida,  Shayla Jerdon, of Chandler, Arizona,  Matthew (Catherine) Ingram of Noblesville,   Heather (Chaz) Dudas of Cincinnati,   Virginia (Kyle) Nepomuceno, of Phoenix,   Ashley (Cody) Nussbaum of Jacksonville   and Laura (James) Metz of Brookville, Ohio, along with 11 great-grandchildren with two more on the way.

Services will be held at Grace Community Church, 308 Meadow Lane, Liberty on Friday, December 22nd at 12pm with visitation at 11am until time of the service with Pastor Troy Caudill officiating. Burial will be in West Point Cemetery. For more information, or to send condolences and memories to the family, please visit www.ShowalterBlackwellLong.com.

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