Everett Joe Palmer Ingalls Jr.

September 21, 1921 - May 26, 2014

Yarmouth -- Everett Palmer (“Joe”) Ingalls, Jr., 92, of Yarmouth, passed away on May 26, 2014, after a brief illness. Joe was born in Niagara Falls, New York, on September 21, 1921. By the time he graduated from Westbrook High School in 1939, he had lived in nine different towns in the northeast due to his father’s peripatetic career as a paper maker.

Joe was an Eagle Scout and would have attended the first-ever national Boy Scout Jamboree, in Washington, D.C., had the Jamboree not been canceled because of an outbreak of polio in the Washington area.

Joe graduated from the University of Maine as a member of the Class of 1943 with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering.

Joe met his wife of 70+ years, Joyce Rutherford (“Joy”) Iveney, while they were students at UMaine. They married on Christmas Day, 1943, in Eastport, Maine, Joy’s hometown.

Joe was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army in 1947 and returned to Westbrook to begin his own career in the paper industry. Joe worked in mills in Westbrook, Maine, Muskegon, Michigan, Woodland (Baileyville), Maine, and Lyons Falls, New York, for S.D. Warren Paper Company, St. Croix Paper Company, and Georgia-Pacific Corporation, retiring as mill manager of GP’s mill in Lyons Falls. After retiring, Joe continued to serve as director of Lyons Falls Pulp & Paper Company for several years.

Joe was a passionate and accomplished alpine skier. In addition to skiing challenging terrain in the U.S., Canada and Europe, Joe was a long-time coach for Maine Adaptive Skiing, helping challenged skiers enjoy the sport until his late 80s.

Joe loved his summers at the family’s camp in Perry, Maine, golfing, water skiing, boating, maintaining the camp, and passing all of those skills on to his children and grandchildren. He was proudly meticulous about the grounds around his home.

Joe was a loyal communicant of St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Yarmouth.

Joe is survived by his wife, Joyce, his son, Everett P. (“Terry”) Ingalls, III, and daughter-in-law, Susan Wilson Ingalls, of Portland, his son, K. Robert Ingalls, and daughter-in-law, Karen Mulcahy Ingalls, of Tiburon, California, his daughter, Virginia I. Peterson, and son-in-law, Robert R. Peterson, of Greenville, North Carolina, his daughter, Jane I. Clabby, and son-in-law, Joseph E. Clabby, of Yarmouth, and his five grandchildren, Abigail V. Ingalls, Robert S. Nixon Peterson, Carolyn I. Nadler, Anne C. Clabby and Robert William Clabby. Joe was predeceased by his parents, Everett P. Ingalls and Carolyn Imogen (Wormwood) Ingalls, late of Westbrook, and by his sister, Joyce I. Markward, late of Dallas, Texas.

A memorial service will be held at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church at 396 Gilman Road, Yarmouth, at 11 A.M. on Friday, May 30, 2014. Burial will be by the family at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to Maine Adaptive Sports & Recreation (www.maineadaptive.org), 8 Sundance Lane, Newry, Maine 04261.