Avis C. Ingram

PITTSFIELD -- Avis C. Ingram, 83, of Devonshire Estates, 329 Pittsfield Road, formerly of Laurel Street, Lee, died Friday at Berkshire Medical Center.

Born in Chester on July 24, 1924, daughter of Amos and Ruth Whitcher Davenport, she was a 1942 graduate of the former Chester High School. She moved to Lee in 1942.

Mrs. Ingram was employed by the town of Lee and the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority as a tourist adviser, retiring from both in the late 1990s. Before that, in the 1960s, she was employed by the Lee Public School System as a teachers' aide. In the 1970s, she worked as a secretary at the former Lenox Machine Co. in Lenox Dale.

She was a communicant of St. Mary's Church in Lee and enjoyed politics and playing bridge. She also was a fan of the Boston Red Sox and the New England Patriots.

Her husband, Richard Ingram, whom she married Aug. 17, 1942, died May 5, 1983.

She leaves a son, William R. Ingram of Lee; two daughters, Barbara E. Bradway of Summerville, S.C., and Claire L. Bercury of Pittsfield; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

FUNERAL NOTICE -- The funeral for Avis C. Ingram, who died Friday, Nov. 9, 2007, will be Wednesday morning at 9:15 at KELLY FUNERAL HOME in Lee, with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Church in Lee. Burial will follow in Fairmount Cemetery. Visiting hours at the funeral home will be tomorrow from 4 to 7 p.m. Friends wishing may make donations to the Lee Visiting Nurse Association or the American Cancer Society, both in care of the funeral home, 3 Main St., Lee, MA 01238. Mrs. Ingram also leaves her grandchildren, AnnMarie Charbonneau, Andrea Stringer, Matthew Bradway, Scott and Jeffrey Bercury, and Colin and Brandon Ingram; and her great-grandchildren, Nicholas Charbonneau, U.S. Marine Corps, stationed in Iraq, Sara and Katie Charbonneau, and Hannah Stringer. She was predeceased by five brothers and three sisters.