WESTFIELD: 
Robert P. Ingalls, 89, died Wednesday, August 5, 2015 in the Holyoke Soldiers Home. He was born in Brattleboro, VT on August 15, 1925 to the late Harold and Charlotte (Houghton) Ingalls. He grew up in Brattleboro and was a 1944 graduate of Brattleboro High School. He served in the U.S. Navy during WW-2 as a radioman on aircraft carrier “SitKok Bay” for three years. Robert also attended Columbia Technical Institute in Washington D.C. and Coyne Electrical in Boston, MA. He worked for Standard Elec. Time in Springfield, Oaks Electric in Holyoke and Kidder Stacy in Agawam and retired as an Electrical Drafting Engineer in 1990. He was a talented artist and woodcarver and enjoyed many other hobbies. He was a member of the American Legion and Mount Moriah Lodge of Masons. Robert leaves his wife of 64 years Glenice (Hunt) Ingalls, his children Scott Ingalls and his wife Sally of Southwick, Kurt Ingalls and his wife Sandra of Enfield, CT, his daughter Jane Raymond and her husband Bill of Westfield. He also leaves his grandchildren Julia and Bill Ingalls, Kristin and Robert Conroy and Erin and Kara Ingalls and a great-granddaughter Taylor Driscoll. He also leaves his sister Patricia Clark of AZ and was pre-deceased by his sister Gladys Spaulding of AZ. The funeral and burial will be private in Hinesburg Cemetery in Guilford, VT at a later time. Donations in memory of Robert may be made to the Holyoke Soldiers Home 110 Cherry Street, Holyoke, MA 01040.
