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Melvin Wesley Ingersoll Sr.

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Melvin Wesley Ingersoll Sr.

Birth
Missouri, USA
Death
2 Jul 1987 (aged 73)
Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
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Melvin Wesley Ingersoll, Sr.
(May 31, 1914 ~ July 02, 1987)

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Melvin Ingersoll

GALENA, Kan. — Melvin W. Ingersoll, 73, 2317 Main St., died about 6 p.m. Thursday at St. John’s Regional Medical Center, Joplin, Mo., after an illness.

Mr. Ingersoll was born May 31, 1914, at Joplin. He had resided in Galena since 1964. moving from Baxter Springs. He retired in March 1978 as a machinist at the Vickers Inc. plant at Joplin. He was a member of Empire Mission Church, Galena.

He married Ruby Walkenshaw on March 30, 1960, in Galena. She survives.

Additional survivors include four sons, Larry Ingersoll, Diamond, Mo.. Kenneth Ingersoll and Max Ingersoll, both of Joplin, and Melvin W. Ingersoll Jr., Riverton; a stepson, Bill Walkenshaw, Riverton; a daughter, Leona Hardesty, Carthage, Mo.; a brother, Clarence Ingersoll, Mission; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Derfelt Funeral Home. The Rev. Bob Winnett will officiate. Burial will be in Pence Cemetery, near Baxter Springs.

Pallbearers will be Steve Walkenshaw, Merl Mallett, Rick Alumbaugh, Otto Hodges, Mark Bell and Dave Bentley.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Joplin Globe,
Friday, July 3, 1987,
Page: 3C; Column: 3 of 6.
Joplin, Missouri.

Note: The son of Rev. Peter W. and Maude Lillian Ingersoll.

He married Margaret E. Greenlee, 21 June 1938. To this union the following were born Leona June Hardesty, Larry Eugene, Kenneth Lloyd, Melvin Wesley, Jr. and Max Earl.

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Social Security Death Index

Name: Melvin Ingersoll
State of Issue: Missouri
Date of Birth: Sunday May 31, 1914
Date of Death: July 1987
Est. Age at Death: 73 years, 1 months
Last known residence:

City: Galena; Badger; Lowell; Spring Grove.
County: Cherokee
State: Kansas
ZIP Code: 66739
Latitude: 37.0394
Longitude: -94.6644

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Melvin Ingersoll (1914 - 1987) – Pence Cemetery –
Suggested By: Russell Hurt #49434998, 15 May 2019.

Middle Name: W; Wesley

Father: Peter Ingersoll (1887-1972)
Mother: Maude Ingersoll (1892-1966)

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Melvin Wesley Ingersoll, Sr.
(May 31, 1914 ~ July 02, 1987)

***

Melvin Ingersoll

GALENA, Kan. — Melvin W. Ingersoll, 73, 2317 Main St., died about 6 p.m. Thursday at St. John’s Regional Medical Center, Joplin, Mo., after an illness.

Mr. Ingersoll was born May 31, 1914, at Joplin. He had resided in Galena since 1964. moving from Baxter Springs. He retired in March 1978 as a machinist at the Vickers Inc. plant at Joplin. He was a member of Empire Mission Church, Galena.

He married Ruby Walkenshaw on March 30, 1960, in Galena. She survives.

Additional survivors include four sons, Larry Ingersoll, Diamond, Mo.. Kenneth Ingersoll and Max Ingersoll, both of Joplin, and Melvin W. Ingersoll Jr., Riverton; a stepson, Bill Walkenshaw, Riverton; a daughter, Leona Hardesty, Carthage, Mo.; a brother, Clarence Ingersoll, Mission; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Derfelt Funeral Home. The Rev. Bob Winnett will officiate. Burial will be in Pence Cemetery, near Baxter Springs.

Pallbearers will be Steve Walkenshaw, Merl Mallett, Rick Alumbaugh, Otto Hodges, Mark Bell and Dave Bentley.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Joplin Globe,
Friday, July 3, 1987,
Page: 3C; Column: 3 of 6.
Joplin, Missouri.

Note: The son of Rev. Peter W. and Maude Lillian Ingersoll.

He married Margaret E. Greenlee, 21 June 1938. To this union the following were born Leona June Hardesty, Larry Eugene, Kenneth Lloyd, Melvin Wesley, Jr. and Max Earl.

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Social Security Death Index

Name: Melvin Ingersoll
State of Issue: Missouri
Date of Birth: Sunday May 31, 1914
Date of Death: July 1987
Est. Age at Death: 73 years, 1 months
Last known residence:

City: Galena; Badger; Lowell; Spring Grove.
County: Cherokee
State: Kansas
ZIP Code: 66739
Latitude: 37.0394
Longitude: -94.6644

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Melvin Ingersoll (1914 - 1987) – Pence Cemetery –
Suggested By: Russell Hurt #49434998, 15 May 2019.

Middle Name: W; Wesley

Father: Peter Ingersoll (1887-1972)
Mother: Maude Ingersoll (1892-1966)

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