[Dixielandjazz] Obituary

[Don Ingle]

>From a Michigan newspaper

   BALDWIN, Mich --  Mrs. Edwina A. Ingle, aged 98, of Baldwin passed away
June 25 in Balwin, Michigan after a short illness
   Edwina, known as "Eddie" to friends and family, was born July 28, 1904 in
Duplain,  Michigan, the fifth generation of a pioneer Clinton County family.
   She was a 1924 graduate of Michigan Normal College (now EMU).
   She was married in 1926 to musician/entertainer Ernest "Red" Ingle. She
was a "band wife" all her married life beginning with  the 1926 Gene
Goldkette Orchestra, Ted Weems
Orchestra, Spike Jones and the City Sickers, and her husband's own Capitol
recording group, Red Ingle and the Natural Seven.
   Close friends from the jazz and big band era included Tommy and Jimmy
Dorsey, Russ Morgan, Pee Wee Hunt, Red Nichols, Perry Como, and
singer -turned-actress Marilyn Maxwell.
   Widowed in 1965, when her bandleader husband died in Santa Barbara, she
never remarried.
   .    Mrs Ingle leaves a son, Don (Jean) of Baldwin; a grand daugher,
Kathryn (Wes) Pero, of Akron, Michigan; two great grandchildre, Nathan, 17
and Julie Nicole, 14,  and many friends from the big band days from around
the nation.
   Private services were held in Baldwin. Michigan. No memorial service, by
her request, was held. Internment was  in her family's cemetary lot  in
Ovid, Michigan next to her husband.
   She was the last living band wife from the Gene Goldkette Orchestra of
1926-27, and with her passing a Detroit jazz era  ends.
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