Odina L. Ingersoll, 82, of Camroden Road, wife of Morris J. Ingersoll, passed away Monday, January 21, 2008, at the Rome Memorial Hospital Healthcare Facility where she had resided since May 2003. Odina was born May 25, 1925 in Dickinson Center, one of twelve children of Nelson and Lillian St. Dennis Bogart. She grew up on area farms in St. Lawrence County. She moved to the Westernville area where she met Morris Ingersoll, and they were united in marriage on June 1, 1955 in New Medford, MA. The couple moved to their present home on the Camroden Road fifty-four years ago. She was a great wife and mother. She loved children, and enjoyed shopping, cooking, baking, gardening, and crocheting. Odina was of the Christian faith. In addition to her husband, Morris, she is survived by two daughters: Brenda and husband William Whitman of Boonville, and Shirley Ingersoll of Maryland; five sons: Matthew M. Ingersoll of Holland Patent, Douglas and wife Cheryl Ingersoll of Westernville, Charles and wife Kathy Ingersoll of Holland Patent, Timothy and wife Connie Ingersoll of Frankfort, and James E. Ingersoll of Oneida; many grandchildren and great-grandchildren; two sisters: Mrs. Donald (Noreen) McCaffrey of Westernville and Bertha Hoosennick of Virginia; nieces, nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by five sisters: Ruth and Pauline Yaddow, Bernice Scott, Eunice O'Brien and Delia V. Jock; and by four brothers: Loren, Bernard, Sidney and Elwood Bogart. The funeral service for Mrs. Ingersoll will be at 8 pm Thursday at the Trainor Funeral Home, Inc., 143 Schuyler St., Boonville, with Rev. Chester Lippy officiating. Interment will be in the spring in Fairchild Cemetery, Remsen. Calling hours will be Thursday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 pm at the funeral home. Contributions may be made in Odina's memory to the Rome Memorial Hospital Healthcare Facility, 1500 N. James St., Rome, NY 13440.
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