Ronald Edward Ingham, age 82, of Prairie du Chien, Wis., passed away peacefully on Friday, Feb. 11, 2022, at home with his family by his side after a brief illness. He was born Dec. 30, 1939, in La Crosse, Wis., the son of James and Mary Eleanor (Crowley) Ingham. He attended schools in Boscobel, Madison and Prairie du Chien, and spent much of his youth on the Ingham farm in Seneca, Wis., where he learned the value of hard work and grit. He also survived a difficult bout with polio and the loss of his father as a teenager.