Crossing Guard Roy Ingerson
Roy Ingerson has been serving the citizens of Merrimack since April 1990. He currently holds the rank of Crossing Guard.
In 1918 Roy’s father purchased a Model-T Ford from the Fitzsimmons Motor Car Company in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In 1922, Henry Ford invited everyone that purchased a Model-T from the New England Area to attend a field day at the Wayside Inn is Sudbury, MA. His family was in attendance. The highlight of the day was to shake hands with Harvey Firestone, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. Firestone made the tires and Edison made the light bulbs.
After high school, Roy wanted to be a cartoonist, but his Dad wanted him to go to the Worcester Boys Trade School to learn something other then being a cartoonist. He graduated from trade school as an auto mechanic. He worked as a auto mechanic for about two years, until becoming a bus driver in 1936. Roy spent two years the World War at Fort Devens, MA as an auto and truck mechanic in the motor pool. He left in 1946 to go back to driving busses for the Flannagan Bus Lines in Gardner, MA. Later he drove for Buckingham Bus Co. in Groton, MA part time until 1969. In 1950, after training at Burns Detective Agency, Roy became a store detective for Jordan Marsh Co., R.H. White Co and Sears Roebuck & Co. until 1970. Roy then moved to Merrimack, NH in September 1970 and worked for Sanders Associates, Inc. as a security officer. He became a sergeant after six months. In1973, he joined the Merrimack Police Department on a part-time basis until 1983, when the auxillary unit was dibanded. In April 1990, he joined the department as a crossing guard at Thornton’s Ferry School where he remains today.
Roy attended training with Police Standards & Training Council in the 1970s and has had more recent crossing guard courses.
Roy has received many awards in his years. These include:
- Eddie-May Cole Publishing Co. poetry that he has written
- Awards while at Fort Devins, MA including a drawing that made the front page for the Motor Pool Monthly paper.
- For working with Boy Scouts in Ayer, MA
- Industrial First Aid Award from Sanders
- Award for helping the Merrimack Police D.A.R.E. program
- 1999 – A certificate of appreciation award from the Merrimack Police I.B.P.O Local #320.
- 2001 – Certificate of appreciation from the Police Department
If you would like to contact Roy, you can reach him by e-mail.