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By: Hill 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' 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 6
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 eleven 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;
RESOLVED, that the House of Representatives of the 79th Texas
Legislature, 3rd Called Session, hereby congratulates 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.