Wilma Ingram

© Durant Daily Democrat

Friday, December 26, 2008

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Boswell First Baptist Church in Boswell for Wilma Ingram, 77, of Boswell, who passed away Thursday, Dec. 25, 2008, in Hugo. Rev. Gene Witt and Jan Lee will officiate.

Wilma was born July 17, 1931, in Buckhorn, the daughter of Cuffard and Lillie “Baker” Johnson. She was raised near Buckhorn and married Bill Ingram on Dec. 19, 1953, in Hugo. She was a 50-year member of the Choctaw County Home Extension Club. She was an excellent seamstress, sewing all her own clothing and making quilts that she won several ribbons for at the county fair. She loved to cook, garden and make canned goods. She was also a member of the Boswell Homecoming Committee for 45 years.

She was preceded in death by one brother, Austin Henry Johnson.

Wilma is survived by her husband, Bill Ingram, of the home; two sons and daughters-in-law: Joe Bill and Judy Ingram of Bokchito and Mark and Teresa Ingram of Poteau; three brothers: Lonnie Johnson and Theodore Johnson, both of Ryan, and Gary Johnson of Blue Ridge, Texas; four sisters: Elizabeth McKee of Buckhorn, Lena McCullough of Ft. Worth, Texas, Joyce Lacey and Patsy Hodges, both of Ryan; one sister-in-law: Carmelitta LeFlore of Tulsa; four grandchildren: Amanda Hamill and husband Jeff of Bokchito, Rebecca Morton and husband Mark of Hugo, Allison Coker and husband Dustin of Bennington and Lee Wayne Ingram of Poteau; five great-grandchildren: Abigail Ingram and Zachary Kirkland, both of Poteau, Emily Hamill of Bokchito, Rylie Coker of Bennington and Christian Morton of Hugo; and several nieces and nephews.

Interment will be at Restland Cemetery, Boswell.

The family will receive friends at their home south of Boswell Friday evening from 4-8 p.m.

Prater-Lampton-Mills & Coffey Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.