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                                                                  H.R. No. 249



R E S O L U T I O N
	WHEREAS,  Ray and Barbara Ingram will celebrate their 50th 
wedding anniversary on April 30, 2006, when they will be honored by 
the members of their family as well as a large extended family; and
	WHEREAS, The young couple first met Friday evening, April 25, 
1952, at a Sunday school class picnic at Dallas's Lake Cliff Park, 
where Air Force Airman 2nd Class Ray was waiting to borrow the car 
of his mother, Myrtle Ingram, who was the teacher for Barbara's 
church class; and
	WHEREAS, Ray and Barbara Ingram tied the knot almost exactly 
four years later on April 20, 1956, at the First Baptist Church of 
Oak Cliff; and
	WHEREAS, Barbara Ingram retired in 1987 as a bookkeeper for 
communications industries after 25 years; and
	WHEREAS, Ray Ingram retired in 1987 after 30 years with 
Safeway Stores, where he rose to the position of store manager six 
years; and
	WHEREAS, Ray and Barbara Ingram both have lived in Dallas 
County well over 50 years; and
	WHEREAS, Ray and Barbara Ingram take justifiable pride in 
their family, which includes sons Ray Ingram, Jr., and Leonard 
Ingram and daughter Larissa Ingram and 11 grandchildren, Michael 
Ingram, Jana Rodgers, Jennifer Riley, the late Adam Riley, Jennifer 
Ingram, Allison Ingram, Nicholas Fuller, Morgan Fuller, Brittany 
Fuller, Danny Ingram, and Meagan Doss, and one great-grandson, 
Bradley Rogers; now, therefore, be it
	RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 79th Texas 
Legislature, 3rd Called Session, hereby congratulate Ray and 
Barbara Ingram on their 50th wedding anniversary and extend to them 
best wishes for continued happiness; and, be it further
	RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be 
prepared for Mr. and Mrs. Ingram as an expression of high regard by 
the Texas House of Representatives.

                                                                            Hill

                                                  ______________________________
                                                       Speaker of the House     

	I certify that H.R. No. 249 was adopted by the House on April 
27, 2006, by a non-record vote.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House