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© Stillwater News Press Stillwater, Oklahoma October 29, 2009 Billie Anne [Neely] Ingham August 30, 1931 ~ October 27, 2009 Billie Anne "Neely" Ingham, 78, daughter, sister, wife and mother, went home to be with Jesus on Tuesday evening, Oct. 27, 2009, at Forest Hills Assisted Living Center in Broken Arrow. Born on a farm three miles north of Glencoe to Charles Marion Neely and Emma Anne Reeves Matlock Neely on Aug. 30, 1931, she entered first grade at nearby Whitehall School in 1937 attending through the seventh grade. In 1943, she transferred to Glencoe Public Schools where she attended from the eighth grade through the 11th grade. In May 1947 she met her future husband, Earl Loyd Ingham for the first time at a barn dance held on the Vetek farm 12 miles north of Stillwater. On the night of Aug. 14, 1948, she became the wife of Earl Ingham at a ceremony conducted by a justice of the peace in Pawnee. After their marriage the young couple settled on a farm 12 miles northwest of Stillwater. Three children were born to the union: Loyd Melvin in 1949, Billie Neal in 1954 and Sarah Anne in 1957. Billie spent her entire life as a stock farmer. She loved her God, her Charolais cattle, her pets and her children. She was able to farm right up to the end, personally handling the sale of her beloved cattle from her hospital bed at Stillwater Medical Center two weeks before her death. After the sale of the cattle, she determined never to return to her farm and God granted her wish. Billie was preceded in death by one brother, Melvin Matlock, her parents Charles and Emma Neely, her husband Earl and her son Billie Neal. She is survived by her daughter Sarah Anne Humphries and Sarah's two daughters Marci Humphries and Jennifer Humphries, all of Broken Arrow; Loyd Melvin Ingham and his wife Mary Alice both of Sand Springs and their daughters Amanda Ingham of Oklahoma City and Abigail Ingham of Annapolis, Md.; and Billie Neal's children Matthew William Ingham and Elizabeth Anne Ingham Sharp, both of Glenpool. She is also survived by two sisters, Geraldine Stokes and June Porter, both of Glencoe. A lifelong member of the Christian Church, she found useful service first at Glencoe Church of Christ, later at Ninth Avenue Christian Church in Stillwater and finally for the last 19 years at Sunnybrook Christian Church. Arrangements are being handled by Strode Funeral Home. A service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Sunnybrook Christian Church on North Perkins Road. Interment will be at Elm Grove Cemetery southwest of Stillwater. |
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