Carol Audette Ingalls' Obituary
Carol Audette Ingalls (nee Burgess) passed away at Anne Arundel Medical Center on Sunday, November 24.
Carol was born in 1933 in Los Angeles, California, and was raised as a foster child of the caring Rose family. While attending LA’s Manual Arts High School she learned important clerical skills that she would use in various jobs through the years. Later she completed a psychiatric nursing program, enjoying group study sessions where she would help fellow students with pharmacology. Ever friendly and gregarious, she loved telling stories and singing to her nursing home patients while providing care.
This affable personality carried her through life, including her final years as a part of the Manresa assisted living community in Annapolis. Here she always sought to meet and know other residents and staff, often gifting these new friends one of the many varied and colorful “Afghan” lap blankets that she crocheted to keep busy. An avid computer user until near the end, she enjoyed playing online games – especially important was a daily crossword puzzle – and doing her banking and shopping over the web.
An Episcopal convert to the Catholic faith, she found great comfort in Manresa’s weekly mass and rosary services and donated many Afghans to Church-affiliated charities and other causes.
Mrs. Ingalls is survived by a daughter, Thearesa Bertetto of Colorado, as well as by two sons, Michael Wass of California and James Wass of Maryland. She also leaves behind six grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
Her ashes will be interred alongside those of her beloved husband Charles Ingalls (1925 – 2004) in Barrancas National Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida.
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