Melvin E. “Gene” Ingram

Published 5:00 am Friday, June 28, 2002

Services for Melvin E. “Gene” Ingram of Jackson are 1:30 p.m.,Saturday, June 29, at Emmanuel Church of the Nazarene with burialin Lakewood Memorial Park.

Visitation is Saturday from 10 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. at thechurch.

Mr. Ingram, 72, died June 26, 2002, at Central MississippiMedical Center. He was a native of Isola and had lived in Jacksonmost of his life.

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He was retired from Mississippi Materials Company. He was amember of Emmanuel Church of the Nazarene. He was founder of theWay-makers Quartet. He was a veteran of the Korean War, serving inthe Army and the Navy.

Survivors are his wife, Donnis Morris Ingram of Jackson; hisdaughters, Sharon Kay Ingram Teasley of Florence and Melanie IngramAlford of Richland; his brothers, Robert Olen Ingram of Wesson,Norman Leroy Ingram of Jackson and Marion “Squeeky” Ingram ofHarrisville; his sisters, Lillian Elizabeth Ingram Haimes ofFlorence and Nancy Earline Ingram Dufrense of Crystal Springs; andthree grandchildren.