Ina Bernice Ingram

Ina Bernice Ingram Ina Bernice Ingram (Bee), 93, passed away June 4, 2020 at Welbrook Grand Montecito Memory Care Center, Las Vegas, NV. Funeral services will be held at the grave site Plot AF, Site 140 at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery at 12 Noon Thursday June 11, 2020. Ina Bee was born in Wichita Kansas at Wesley Hospital on October 1, 1926 to John Riley and Winifred Bernice (Smith) Cupples. Her dad, John, was a construction electrician and was frequently away from the family home that he built on Fern Street in Wichita. Her mom, Winnie, passed away from an epileptic seizure when Ina Bee was 18. To help provide for the family, Ina Bee got a job at the Sunflower Ammunition Plant west of Kansas City. She married Harmon William Ingram September 20, 1947 in Wichita, Kansas. Interestingly, for a short period of time when Ina Bee was 5 or 6, the Ingrams lived next door to the Cupples on Fern Street. Harmon and Ina Bee had their marriage sealed for time and all eternity in the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Their oldest son, Howard Wayne, was born in Salt Lake City on March 23, 1949. Harmon took a job with the railroad working in the control towers operating the telegraph. The young couple lived out of a small travel trailer they pulled behind a 1942 Pontiac. They moved every 6 weeks from tower to tower. When they got to Kansas City, they quit the railroad. Wesley Dean, their second son, was born June 7, 1954 while they were still living in the trailer in Kansas City, KS. Harmon got a job with General Motors BOP Assembly Plant in Fairfax, KS and the family moved to a small home on 49th Street in Kansas City with indoor plumbing. Ina Bee was a full-time mom and active in church with the Relief Society. She later worked as a bookkeeper for Hudson Oil and Kay's Fashions. The family moved to Roeland Park, KS and Karen Beth, the only daughter, was born April 14, 1959. As Harmon approached retirement, they moved into Ina Bee's dream home, a brand-new split-level house in one of the fastest growing parts of the metro, Blue Springs, MO. After Harmon retired, they bought an RV and they became snowbirds spending the winters in Apache Junction, AZ. They eventually moved full time to Apache Junction, then Las Vegas, to be near their son Wesley. Ina Bee was preceded in death by her husband Harmon, her three brothers John, Dale and Sam Cupples, and her sister (Olive) Lorainne Gangel. Survivors include son Howard Ingram and wife Linda, Kansas City, KS; grandsons Brian and wife Christine, Travis, Michael and wife Holli; great grandchildren Anna Thompson (Michael), Mary Kate and Christopher Ingram (Brian). Son Wesley Ingram and wife Jana, Las Vegas, NV; grandson Devin and wife Merlinda; great granddaughter Amelia Hosanny. Daughter Karen Gasper, NY; grandchildren Jason and Stephanie. Brother Victor (Jim) Cupples and wife Joan, San Jose, CA.

Ina Bernice Ingram

October 1, 1926 - June 4, 2020