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© Stillwater News Press Stillwater, Oklahoma February 27, 2008 Billy Neal Ingham July 3, 1954 ~ February 25, 2008 Billy Neal Ingham, 53, of Stillwater, died Monday, Feb. 25, 2008, in Stillwater. His passing marks the end of a life devoted to love, friendship and service in the Christian Church. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday in Sunnybrook Christian Church with Paul Anderson officiating. Interment will be in Elm Grove Cemetery. Strode Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. He was born July 3, 1954, in Stillwater, to Earl Loyd Ingham and Billie Anne (Neely) Ingham. He spent much of his youth working and playing on his parents' farm nine miles south of Stillwater. He attended school in Perkins, graduating in 1972. As a young man, he won people over with his big heart, contagious sense of humor and energetic enthusiasm. Those who knew him best said he never lacked for want of good, clean fun. After high school, he served as youth minister of Southside Christian Church in Sapulpa. He attended Midwest Christian College in Oklahoma City, graduating in 1977. In 1978, he married Pamela Beth Nickels. To this marriage two children were born, Elizabeth Anne Ingham and Matthew William Ingham. In December of 1980 at the age of 26, he was diagnosed with chronic multiple sclerosis. Unable to work and unable to walk, he had a choice to make, either give up or stand up and fight. He chose neither. Instead, he chose to cope with the inevitable decline of his bodily health and he did so with courage and class that most of us can only dream of displaying. He returned to Stillwater in 1991 where he spent the next eight years serving as an active member of Sunnybrook Christian Church and enjoying time on the farm just as he had when he was a child. In 1999, he voluntarily placed himself in the care of Grace Living Center. Even though he spent the last nine years of his life bedridden and completely disabled, he never wavered. He remained steadfast in his love for God and steadfast in his love for people. He was preceded in death by his father and one uncle, Chester Lewis Ingham. He is survived by his mother, Billie Anne Ingham, of Stillwater; one son, Matthew William Ingham of Tulsa; one daughter, Elizabeth Anne Wilburn of Glenpool; one brother, Loyd Melvin Ingham and his wife, Mary Alice, of Sand Springs; one sister, Sarah Anne Humphries and her husband, Rick, of Broken Arrow; four nieces, Abigail Ingham of Sand Springs, Amanda Ingham of Sand Springs, Marci Humphries of Broken Arrow and Jennifer Humphries of Broken Arrow; two aunts, June Porter and her husband, Max, of Glencoe and Jerry Stokes of Glencoe and one great uncle, Chester Rains of Stillwater. Memorial contributions may be made in his name to the Elm Grove Cemetery Association, c/o Connie Walker, 2515 W. 92nd St., Perkins, OK 74059 or Sunnybrook Christian Church, 421 E. Richmond Rd., Stillwater, OK 74075. |
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