Patricia Ann Morey Ingram's Obituary
Patricia Ann Morey Ingram died September 16, 2025, in Dallas, Texas. She leaves behind her only son, CW Ingram III, her sister Beverly Manning, her brother Edwin Morey, her two grandchildren Nolan Everett Ingram and Audrey Leigh Ingram, and many nephews and nieces and their growing extended family all blessed and damned to dance life’s tragic pageant.
Pat was born April 19, 1948, in Fort Worth, Texas, daughter to Hazel Cornelius Morey and Eugene Maurice Morey. She attended Polytechnic High School in Fort Worth where she was a high performing student and student body leader. Outside of school she became a talented pianist and seamstress (which talent she used to sew her own wardrobe throughout her school days, a feat which sounds literally incredible by today’s standards.) She grew up a Methodist and was very involved in her church life. She studied French at the University of Texas at Arlington and spent a summer abroad in Paris, where she traveled around Europe for months with her friend Cindy breaking European hearts and from which coming of age expedition she was loathe to return.
She did return, however, and on a sweltering Texas day met and fell in love with Charles W Ingram Jr. of Dallas. They married on September 10, 1971, in Arlington, Texas. The couple loved to travel, spending time in Greece, Mexico, Hawaii, and especially New Orleans where they owned a timeshare condo in the French Quarter.
Having taught herself to type, she got a job as a secretary at Republic National Bank. Unsatisfied to settle for this role, at her urging she and Charles both enrolled in graduate school at UTA and received their MBAs in 1981 after attending night school for six years while maintaining full-time positions at the bank. Both subsequently rose to Vice President roles at Republic. Their time spent, friends, and various successes there remained precious to them throughout their lives.
At age 38, Pat found to her surprise that she was to become a mother. The primary focus of her life became her family. As her son CW grew up, she was involved, supportive, and generous with her time at every step, volunteering for the PTA at each school (often as Treasurer, of course) and for the booster club of all of CW’s high school music and theater activities. She was especially involved in theater productions, helping a grade-school aged CW and friends compete in Odyssey of the Mind one-act plays, and later was deputy costume director (and of course, costume seamstress) for musical theater and drama performances at Lake Highlands High School. She also volunteered for her church Saint Michael and All Angels in Dallas.
She was an ambitious, resourceful, talented, intelligent woman with room in her heart for everyone. She abhorred sanctimoniousness and was often surprisingly and delightfully direct. Her actions were selfless. She touched so many lives and was a second mother to many of her son’s friends to whom she gave her genuine interest and love and treated them like part of the family. One such friend, in remembrance, said “she was the mother I wish I had”. It was her personal mission to foster the natural gifts and individualities of her many “children”. Also, she could talk to a wall, an ability both beloved and kinda embarrassing sometimes.
To her son himself, the volume and the value of the time and patience she gave cannot be overstated.
Charles died in January 2023. They were married for 52 years but declined to have a big 50-year anniversary party in 2021 due to caution around COVID-19. Indeed, luck and timing were not on their side as they reached the end of their lives’ journeys. On her death in 2025, her twin grandchildren were just 12 days old, and her condition prevented her from ever meeting them in this life. The cruelty of this raises questions.
Mom – you gave me everything and I’m sorry I couldn’t return the favor. I hope you rest in peace, reunited with the love of your life. I will love you forever.
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