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| Notes for LeRoy Kingrey | ||||||||||
| An obituary given to me by Ina Kingrey Apple BRADFORD--Services for LeRoy Kingrey, 68, will be held at 2 p.m. at the Stocker funeral home. Mr. Kingrey died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Ina Pearl Apple, with whom he resided, at 12:30 p.m. yesterday. He had been ill for four months. A retired farmer, he was a member of the Greenville Creek Christian church. Besides his daughter, he is survived by a son, Virgil, Columbus. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. today. Burial will be in Highland cemetery, Covington. My grandfather LeRoy died when I was two weeks old. My father doesn't talk about him much. I know that he was blind from glaucoma for several years before his death. He and my grandmother were separated. Notice that she is not mentioned in the obituary, even though she survived him by 25 years and was ultimately buried beside him in Covington. I believe it was an unhappy relationship in which he possibly abused her, mentally and physically. LeRoy in turn was from a home and family in which his parents domineered over him. This comes from a story told to me by my aunt Ina Kingrey Apple. It seems that after they were married, LeRoy and Ivah lived for a while with his parents, Will and Ella (Wonner) Kingrey. The parents were determined that "Roy" and "Ivy" not have children too soon, and so arranged the bedroom furniture in order that the bed was visible via a large mirror over the dresser which reflected into the living area of the house. Perhaps that is the reason that my grandparents' marriage produced only two children, born 10 years apart. She had left him by the time my father was an adolescent, and went to work as a live-in housekeeper in another city. My father spent his high school years living with his older sister Ina, who by then was married to my uncle Henry Apple. | ||||||||||
| Notes for Sarah Ivah ("Ivy") (Spouse 1) | ||||||||||
| Obituary: COVINGTON -- Sarah Ivah Kingrey, 89, 10100 W. Versailles Road, died Tuesday at 1:45 p.m. at her home. She was born Dec. 6, 1893, in Miami County, daughter of Matthew U. and Christina (Bashore) Myers. Her husband, LeRoy Kingrey, died in 1958. Surviving are two children, Mrs. Henry (Ina) Apple of Covington, and Virgil T. Taylor of Omaha, Neb.; eight grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Christina Olinger, of Greenville. Mrs. Kingrey was a member of the Harris Creek Church of the Brethren where services will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. with the Rev. Harold Freeman officiating. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery, Covington. Friends may call at the Stocker Funeral Home in Bradford, Friday from 3 to 8 p.m. | ||||||||||
| Last Modified New | Created 30 Apr 2001 by Alan J. Kimmerling |