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Iva Ralston
1921-2023
Iva Eileen Ralston
June 5, 1921 – June 9,
2023
Iva was born at home to John Thomas and Mary Melvina
[Tremaine] Riddolls on June 5, 1921, at 267 London Road, Guelph, the
fifth of their six children (Cora, Rita, Gladys, Ralph, and Verna).
Her life focused on the Salvation Army Guelph Corps music and
ministries that saturated her life and in its Sunday School where she
met a boy named Henry Ralston. They played their first piano duet
together when they were 13 years old, the same year she admits to
sharing their first kiss. She always thought Henry was the smarter
one, yet Henry copied her homework for school and Corps
Cadets.
She left Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute early with a
secretarial diploma, imagining marriage and a future with the
Salvation Army in Europe or India. But when war broke out in 1939,
Henry enlisted. A year later they married. When Henry was transferred
overseas, Iva returned to live with her parents on London Road. By the
time Henry returned, their first child, Margaret Ann, was already 17
months old. They traveled to billets until he again went overseas
after D-Day. After the war’s end a second child, Mary Lynn,
came and a decade later a son, Timothy John.
Iva’s world had been filled with regular days and
life-long friends. But with Henry she embarked on a perpetual
adventure as they moved from Guelph through Toronto, Montreal,
Kitchener, Kingston, Waterloo, and finally home to Guelph where they
bought and renovated the house in which Iva was born.
Iva and Henry sustained an active leadership ministry in
churches wherever they went. Along the way they lost Margaret
Anne’s husband, Phil, and their second daughter, Mary Lynn.
After Henry died in 2008 she moved to Green Valley, Ontario, to live
with her oldest daughter and her second husband, Ernie. After Ernie
passed away, in 2020 Iva and Margaret Anne moved to apartments in
Pointe-Claire, Quebec at Le Cambridge. She passed away peacefully
surrounded by family at the Teresa Deller Palliative Care Residence in
Kirkland, QC.
Every morning Iva reserved the hour after breakfast to pray
by name for her friends and for each of her 60 living descendants
along with their spouses – all active in local churches,
several as full-time church and parachurch staff. Her greatest
pleasure was supporting those around her by listening, encouraging,
and directing them to Jesus, the only One she knew who could meet
every need in any circumstance and in whose arms she now awaits her
resurrection and reunion with them all.
Her Memorial service will be held at 1:00 PM on Wednesday,
June 21, 2023 at the Guelph Bible Chapel, 216
Silvercreek Pkwy S, Guelph, Ontario, N1H
3S7
19212023
Décès pour la Ville:Guelph, Province: Ontario
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