In Memory

Thomas 'Tom' Ingram - Class Of 1949

Thomas 'Tom' Ingram

Tom Ingram

August 7, 1931 - June 17, 2022

Thomas J Ingram, 90, passed away at Mifflin Court, Shillington, Pennsylvania, where he resided since 2021. He was predeceased by his wife, Marjorie, with whom he had celebrated 58 years of marriage, and by two sisters, Betty Ingram Yankwich '41 and Martha Pilorz, both of Santa Barbara, California. He is survived by two daughters:  Susan Ingram, Pipersville, Pennsylvania, wife of Jeffrey Mann, and Katherine Davis, Shillington, wife of Michael;a step-son, Robert Hevner of Del Mar, California; and two grandchildren.

Tom was born in Los Angeles to Stuart and Etta Ingram, and lived in Pasadena until 1963. He graduated from South Pasadena-San Marino High School and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1953. Following graduation, he entered the Army and served in Korea. He was discharged in 1955 and began his career with C.F. Braun & Company in Alhambra before moving to the Aerojet-General Corporation in Azusa and Sacramento. While there, he worked as a development engineer on rocket engines. He made significant contributions to the design of the Lunar Excursion Module of the Apollo Program and NERVA nuclear propelled rocket engines. In 1968 he returned to C.F. Braun before moving to Jackson, Michigan as an air pollution control specialist for Commonwealth Associates, which eventually became Worley-Parsons in Reading, Pennsylvania. He retired in 1998.

Tom was a member of several technical societies and was a registered engineer in five states. He was a member of Christ Episcopal Church in Reading.

Reading Eagle, June 19, 2022