Glynn Ingram

Earl Glynn Ingram, 86, passed away in Nashville, Tennessee, on November 1, 2026, after a long battle with Parkinson’s. He was born on September, 20, 1940, in Manifest, Louisiana, to Robert Earl and Jessie Clydell Kees Ingram.

After graduating from Tioga High School in 1958, he attended Louisiana Tech University, where he studied History. He earned an M.A. in History from Auburn University in 1963 and a Ph.D. in British History from the University of Georgia in 1973, seven years after returning to work in Louisiana Tech’s History Department. Glynn loved teaching, and both his children loved sitting in the back of his classes during the summers watching him teach and tease his students. He took pride in being a professor at Tech and joyed in spending time in the faculty coffee lounge with the cast of characters who roamed Madison Hall’s corridors.

Glynn saw his real job, though, as taking care of his family and giving his children the best life he could provide for them. So, in addition to teaching at Tech, he ran an antique furniture refinishing and repair business and spent many summers, as well, working for Mallory Electric in Ruston. The close care he put into his furniture refinishing and building did not extend to the interiors of his trucks, cars, closets or offices, all of which were heroically messy.

After retiring from Tech in 2004, Glynn focused on what he loved most, his family. During his time living in Ohio, Florida and Tennessee, he delighted in his grandchildren and savored time with his devoted children. In retirement, he volunteered as a carpenter for Habitat for Humanity in Athens, Ohio, where his children’s pleas not to climb atop the roofs of houses while in his late sixties went mostly unheeded. In Tennessee, he was active in Nashville Tools for Schools, which gave him another outlet to work with his hands, to joke with friends, and to cook savory gumbo for his crew. Retirement was not all work, as he travelled frequently, including to England, the Far West, New York City and New England. And when he was not working on crosswords and puzzles, he was reading spy and detective novels. Most of all, though, he took his greatest satisfaction being with his family, usually while perched in the nearest comfy chair. His children and grandchildren often befuddled him, but being in and amongst them brought him evident peace and real contentment.

One of nature’s smart alecks, he was a sweet, generous and tender-hearted man who sometimes did his best to hide it. Those who knew him best adored him. Above all, Glynn will be remembered for his loving kindness.

He is preceded in death by his parents; his brother, Reginald “Pookie” Claudell Ingram; and his sister, Valda Lou Ingram Jones.

He is survived and mourned by his son Robert (Jill) Ingram of Austin, Texas; daughter, Kathryn Thompson (Sebastian Lurie) of Nashville, Tennessee; sister, Carolyn Fletcher of Tioga, Louisiana; granddaughters, Claire Elizabeth Ingram of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Lucy Anne Ingram of Austin, Texas, Harper Ivy Thompson and Helen Jane Thompson, both of Nashville, Tennessee; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and friends, including Peggy Christopher.

A memorial service will be held in December at Christ Church Cathedral in Nashville, Tennessee. Details will follow. In lieu of flowers, donations are asked to be given to Nashville Tools for Schools.