[Dixielandjazz] Eddie Ingle obit - condolences

[tito martino]

Dear Don,

My sincere condolences, it's a great loss,
but keep the good memories, as the treasure of a life fulfilled and rich
of love and music.

Tito Martino
clarinet, s.sax, a.sax,
Tito Martino Jazz Band
São Paulo  Brasil  

>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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