Caroline Ingels, 08 Oct. 1914 - 07 Jul 2006

INGELS, WALLACE, HOWES, SINN

Posted By: Netha M Meyer (email)
Date: 7/9/2006 at 13:26:03

Caroline M. Ingels, 91, died Friday evening, July 7,2006, in Mercy Hospital of Franciscan Sisters, Oelwein, after a short illness. Services:10:30 .a.m. Thursday, Maynard Presbyterian Church, by the Rev. John Kerr. Burial: Long Grove Cemetery, Maynard. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m.. Wednesday at Jamison-Schmitz Funeral Home, Maynard, and after 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the church.
A memorial fund has been established in her name.
Caroline is survived by two daughters, Lois (Mrs. Edwin) Goering of Corvallis, Ore.,and Alice Gute of Owatonna, Minn.; a son, Harold (wife Joyce) of Palo; four grandchildren, Laura Gute of Faribault, Minn., Brian (wife Linda) Gute of Duluth, Minn., Rebecca Goering of Heidelburg, Germany, and Scott Goering of Hillsboro, Ore.; and two brothers, Arthur Wallace and Albert (wife Helen) Wallace, both of Newton.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, John W. Ingels, on May 18, 2002; three brothers, Ralph Wallace, Robert Wallace and Herbert Wallace; and two sisters, Irene Sinn and Dorothy Ann Morris.
Caroline Mary Wallace was born on Oct. 8, 1914, in rural Williamsburg, the daughter of John and Lois (Howes) Wallace. She graduated from Williamsburg High School and Iowa State University and taught home economics in Jesup, Fayette, Oran and West Central High School in Maynard.
She married Jonn Warden Ingels on June 15, 1937, at the Wallace family farm near Williamsburg. They lived in Waverly and Carroll before moving to a farm near Maynard in 1945.
Catoline has been active in the Maynard Presbyterian Church as an elder and organist and in the Presbyterian Women as local, Presbyterial and Synodical president and national vice president, and as moderator of Northeast Iowa and John Knox presbyteries. In Church Women United she served on state and national committees and as local president.
Caroline served as president of the Iowa and National guilds of Master Farm Homemakers, as chair of Country Woman's Council. USA, and was a life member of the Associated Country Women of the World. She served as president of Chapter CL, P.E.O., of Phi Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, of the Fayette County Federated Women's Club, and as past worthy matron and organist of chapters of the Order of Eastern Star.
Caroline was a member of the Westgate Study Club, had been a 4-H leader, a Sunday
school teacher, and chair of the Fayette County Farm Bureau Women. In 2004 she was inducted into the Iowa 4-H Hall of Fame.

Cedar Rapids Gazette 9 June 2006 page 5b
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