Marilyn Baker Smith Ingholt, 83, of Goodyear, passed away at home in Goodyear, AZ, on December 17th, 2016. She was born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania to Walter Reynolds and Mary (Jadwin) Smith on November 16, 1933. The family moved to Hamden, Connecticut, where she finished high school in 1950. She was Class President and won the French Prize at graduation. She earned her BS degree in Business at Skidmore College in 1955 and went to work at TIME, Inc in New York City. She remained class secretary at Skidmore for fifty years. She married her college sweetheart, then Air Force Lieutenant Harry Ingholt, in March 1958 and began married life in Honolulu, Hawaii. Their daughter Nancy was born in 1959 just after Hawaii became the 50th State. Brother Paul was born in 1960 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, and the family moved fifteen more times, crossing the country and the Atlantic, before Harry retired. Besides being an Air Force officer’s wife & a Mom, she had many other jobs, as a church secretary, bank teller, school attendance monitor & thrift shop volunteer. Marilyn supported Nancy’s dedication to horseback riding by serving variously as stable hand, groom and chauffeur. She was energetic, vivacious and talkative – in English and French; she never left a room without meeting everyone in it.
Marilyn and Harry moved to Arizona, where he worked for Goodyear Aerospace after retiring from the USAF. They joined Christ United Methodist Church in Avondale. Marilyn began helping at the Luke AFB Thrift Shop and also volunteered at the Luke AFB Hospital’s Hospice. Luke Hospice then became part of the Hospice of the Valley, where she volunteered over a period of twelve years. During this time, the Ingholts opened their home to exchange students from Denmark, Finland and France, for one school year each. Marilyn helped provide transportation for residents of the Women’s Domestic Violence Shelter. She served as Sunday School Superintendent, sang in the choir, played on a women’s tennis league, and was co-chair of the Church and Society Commission while the church became active in programs supporting the Food Bank and feeding wintertime homeless transients in Phoenix.
Marilyn and Harry traveled extensively in retirement, cruising the Amazon, touring Rome, Greece, France and Tahiti, as well as Santa Fe and the Columbia River. When their travelling days were over, and, as symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s progressed, they moved together to the Groves in Goodyear.
Marilyn is survived by her husband, Harry; daughter, Nancy L. (Steve) Evans; and son, Paul R. (Dana) Ingholt. She was preceded in death by her parents and brother, Walter R. Smith, Jr. A memorial service will be held at 4:30 pm on Friday, January 20, 2016 at Christ Community United Methodist Church, 104 W. Western Ave., Avondale, AZ.
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