FBYC MEMORIAM
on Saturday September 18, 2010 08:19PM
IN MEMORIAM
EDWARD E. SUGAR RALSTON, SR.
Edward Eubank "Sugar" Ralston, age 86, died peacefully September 16, 2010. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Marjorie K. Ralston. He is survived by his four children and their spouses, Edward E. "Bo" Ralston Jr. and Melissa, Cary A. Ralston and Janet, Susan R. and Dr. Jim Mathers and Rebecca L. Ralston; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Sugar and Marjorie owned the Fishing Bay property just to the west of the clubhouse and were Honorary Members of Fishing Bay Yacht Club. He was generous in allowing the club to use his beach property during Junior Week and the Annual One Design Regatta each year and he even contributed to the fundraising effort for the new clubhouse. Sugar was a veteran of World War II, having served in the U.S. Army in the European Theater as a forward artillery observer. He served on the Board of AAA Virginia for many years, was a member of the Country Club of Virginia, The Captains and... "COSTCO"! A superb athlete and a Little All American in football, he was inducted into the University of Richmond Football Hall of Fame in 1978. A strong supporter of U of R and The Spider Club, he was also a proud member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He was a lifelong member of River Road Church, Baptist. Sugar loved his friends, golf, gin rummy, his home on Fishing Bay, his collection of music and most of all, his family. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the University of Richmond Champions Fund, the Alzheimer's Foundation and/or River Road Church, Baptist. A celebration of the life of Sugar Ralston will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, September 20, 2010, at River Road Church, Baptist. The family will receive friends immediately following the service in the church fellowship hall.
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