Alice Joy Ingram – Monongahela
Obituaries
September 5, 2023

Alice Joy Ingram – Monongahela

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Alice Joy Ingram, 85, of Monongahela, went to be with the Lord on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. She was born March 9, 1938, in Monongahela, the daughter of John and Mary Elizabeth Herrington Hemmings Sr. Alice attended The Bible Chapel in Rostraver. She loved baking and canning, especially her homemade black raspberry jelly. She enjoyed hanging her clothes outside to dry, even in the winter, and was famous for wearing the most humorous T-shirts! Every year Alice looked forward to the Hemmings family reunion. She is survived by two sons and a daughter, Kevin Ingram and wife Kathy, and Dean Ingram and wife Jackie, all of Monongahela, and Karen Reynolds of Romulus, N.Y.; three grandchildren, Zachary Ingram and wife Melissa, Colton Ingram, and Brooke Sanville and husband Tim; five great-grandchildren, Benji, Madi, Kase, Enzlee and Hudson; brother, Howard Leroy “Lee” Hemmings of Monongahela; three sisters, Ruth Ann MacDougall and husband John of Mayfield Heights, Ohio, Carol Lee of Tampa, Fla., and Donna Pocky and husband John of Charleroi; and a plethora of nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Eugene Ingram, who died Dec. 29, 2010; daughter-in-law, Janice Taddeo Ingram, who died July 4, 2019; nine brothers, Herbert, Harold “Boots,” Donald, George “Hambone,” Richard “Skip,” Paul, Robbie, John Jr. and Thomas David “Dave” Hemmings; and two sisters, Mary “Peg” Pohts and Shirley May Seighman. At Alice’s request, services will be private. Arrangements are entrusted to FRYE FUNERAL HOME. Memorial contributions may be made to Washington Area Humane Society, P.O. Box 66, Eighty Four, PA 15330.      Expressions of sympathy may be made to the family at www.fryefuneralhome.com.

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