Sherry Ingold, the postal delivery woman who died Jan. 24 after she was shot delivering mail along her rural postal route on Highway 35 in Hesterville on Jan. 16 was an organ donor.
The 58-year-old Ingold, a Hesterville native who lived in Lexington, was a mother of three and grandmother of eight.
Her family recently received notification that the donation of Ingold’s kidneys allowed medical personnel to save the lives to two other mothers — a 47-year-old mother of four and a 57-year-old mother of two.
In an online post, Ingold’s daughter Daphne Ingram expressed pride in her mother’s gift.
“Mama’s organs where donated. Today I found out she saved two mama’s lives and kept six children from being motherless. NOTHING will ever make losing mama okay, but this makes my heart so proud,” she wrote.
“How amazing is this? I know mama would be so honored. She was always giving the shirt off her back. She is my hero and now she has become somebody’s else’s hero,” Ingram added.
When contacted by The Star-Herald, Ingram said sharing the story of her mother’s gift of life is a positive thing.
“She was a giver and she blessed two families in her tragedy,” Ingram said. “We miss her. She would be honored to let you (The Star-Herald) share it.”
The man who allegedly shot Ingold, Roland Mitchell Dampeer, 28, is set to go on trial on federal first degree murder charges in the Northern District Court of the United States District Court in June.
Dampeer is also accused of attempting to kidnap Andrea Goss of Carmack from inside the Sunflower supermarket on Highway 12 a short while before shooting Ingold.
Dampeer has been indicted in Attala County Circuit Court on both the Goss kidnapping and Ingold murder charges, according to District Attorney Doug Evans, but the district attorney indicated that Dampeer will only eventually face the murder charge in one court or the other.
