Jane Hall Ingraham, 95, of Vero Beach, passed away after a short stay in hospice.
She is survived by her son, Dr. Irving E. Ingraham, Jr., of Salem, Mass.; two daughters, Julia I. Walker, of New Orleans, La. and Laura Jane Ingraham of Vero Beach; and four grandchildren, Leah Ingraham, Alexander Ingraham, Jacob Walker, and Benjamin Walker.
Her husband, and the love of her life, Irving E. Ingraham, predeceased her by 27 years.
The Ingraham family came to Vero Beach in 1969 from Grosse Pointe, Mich. Born in Hartford, Conn., in 1920, Jane Ingraham graduated with top honors in English from Connecticut College in New London, Conn., and served in World War II as a Lieutenant Senior Grade in the United States Coast Guard. She was stationed at Coast Guard Headquarters in Boston as a cryptographer in charge of the Boston Coast Guard Communications Center.
Following the war, her husband, a Yale graduate, returned from almost four years of service in the European Theater, where he served as an officer in the US Army Corps of Engineers, rebuilding air fields in the formerly occupied countries of Europe. The couple spent a full year traveling throughout the United States and Mexico and they were among the first civilians to drive on the newly opened Alaskan Canadian Highway, from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Anchorage, Alaska, through virgin Canadian and Alaskan territory. Ingraham’s written account of this unique journey was later published.
A life-long student of the freedom philosophy, for more than 20 years Ingraham was a journalist of current affairs, specializing in economic and foreign policy. Her articles appeared regularly in The New American magazine published by the John Birch Society. She also taught in the Vero Beach school system.
Ingraham was a member of the President’s Club of Hillsdale College in Michigan, served as President of the Women’s Republican Club in Grosse Pointe, and was both an active member and essayist of the Republican Voters Association of Michigan’s 14th Congressional District. In Vero Beach she was a member of the Florida Family Association and a member of the former Riomar Yacht Club.
In lieu of flowers the family requests that contributions be made to the Ludwig von Mises Institute, 518 West Magnolia Ave, Auburn, AL, 36832, or go to mises.org. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Friday, Dec. 11, at 10 a.m. at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Vero Beach, with a graveside service to follow at Crestlawn Cemetery. A visitation will be held on Thursday evening, Dec. 10th, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Strunk Funeral Home, 916 17th Street in Vero Beach.
Arrangements are under the direction of Strunk Funeral Home, Vero Beach. An online guestbook is available at www.strunkfuneralhome.com.
