Mrs. Pluma Ruth Ingram, 93, of 809 South Broad St., Rome, and formerly of Cedartown Highway, Lindale, died Saturday morning, Feb. 5, 2000, at a local health care center.

A native of Cherokee County, Ala., Mrs. Ingram was born on March 5, 1906, daughter of the late Jim Allen and Effie Underwood Allen.  Mrs. Ingram was a homemaker and a member of Spring Place Methodist Church in Cherokee County, Ala.

She was married on Dec. 9, 1921, to George Lester Ingram, who preceded her in death in 1982.  She was also preceded in death by a son, Roland Ingram in 1987.

Survivors include four daughters, Edith Mae Thomas, Virginia Wheeler and Wanda Sue Ingram, all of Rome, and Joyce I. Fuller of Pensacola, Fla.; two sons, Jim Ingram of Cartersville and Jack Ingram of Rome; 14 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; one brother, Roy Lee Allen of Rome; one half-sister, Ola Ozmunt of Lyerly, Ga.; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. from the Parkview Chapel of Fred Talley's Funeral Home with Rev. Bobby Stephens officiating.  Interment will follow in Floyd Memory Gardens.

Grandsons will serve as active pallbearers and are asked to meet at Fred Talley's Parkview Chapel Funeral Home Tuesday at 2:30 p.m.

Mrs. Ingram will remain at Fred Talley's Parkview Chapel Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends Tuesday from 1:30 p.m. until the funeral hour.  At other hours, the family will be at the residence of a daughter, Mrs. Paul [Virginia] Wheeler, 424 Wayside Road, Rome.

[Re-printed with permission from The Daily Tribune News in an effort to help preserve history.]