January 25, 1936 - December 28, 2017
Norma Joan (“Jo-an”) Ralston, age 81, passed away peacefully at her home in Lafayette, Louisiana on December 28, 2017, after a short battle with cancer.
An avid reader and volunteer she cultivated and valued many friendships in her adopted state.
Born in 1936, in Wright’s Corner, Illinois to Thomas and Caddie Rogers, Jo-an attended Wright’s Country Grade School and later St. Elmo High School, graduating in 1954. She was active in the Girls Athletic Association, the school newspaper and the school yearbook. She met her future husband, Jimmy Dale (“Jim”) Ralston at school and they were married in 1954.
Jo-an received her beauty school certificate and opened a salon at their home. Later she was the first employee hired by Dr. Judson Phillips, M.D. when he opened his office in Altamont. Over the next 35 years, they moved many times for Jim’s work with Mobile Oil (later Exxon) and raised three children. When living in northern Florida, Jo-an received her associate’s degree in LPN training and worked as a nurse. Their last home together was in Crowley, LA where Jo-an worked at the American Legion Hospital.
Jim died of colon cancer in 1989, and Jo-an later moved to Lafayette where she volunteered with Hospice, Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center and Lafayette Community Health Center, a clinic established to serve the employed who could not afford insurance.
She is survived by her children, Julie (Flemming) Pedersen of Arizona, James (Sherry) Ralston of Kansas and Rick (ZuZu Montoya) Ralston of Georgia; her grandchildren, Shawn Barnes, Jason Ralston, Christie Ralston and Alex Ralston and her siblings, Roslyn Hartman, Wanda LaBounty and Mickey Rogers.
Jo-an will be laid to rest in a private burial at the Spring Hill Presbyterian Church in Beecher City, Illinois.
Upon her death Jo-an left an endowment to the South Louisiana Community College School of Nursing.
Fountain Memorial Funeral Home and Cemetery, 1010 Pandora St., is in charge of arrangements.
Norma Joan (“Jo-an”) Ralston, age 81, passed away peacefully at her home in Lafayette, Louisiana on December 28, 2017, after a short battle with cancer.
An avid reader and volunteer she cultivated and valued many friendships in her adopted state.
Born in 1936, in Wright’s Corner, Illinois to Thomas and Caddie Rogers, Jo-an attended Wright’s Country Grade School and later St. Elmo High School, graduating in 1954. She was active in the Girls Athletic Association, the school newspaper and the school yearbook. She met her future husband, Jimmy Dale (“Jim”) Ralston at school and they were married in 1954.
Jo-an received her beauty school certificate and opened a salon at their home. Later she was the first employee hired by Dr. Judson Phillips, M.D. when he opened his office in Altamont. Over the next 35 years, they moved many times for Jim’s work with Mobile Oil (later Exxon) and raised three children. When living in northern Florida, Jo-an received her associate’s degree in LPN training and worked as a nurse. Their last home together was in Crowley, LA where Jo-an worked at the American Legion Hospital.
Jim died of colon cancer in 1989, and Jo-an later moved to Lafayette where she volunteered with Hospice, Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center and Lafayette Community Health Center, a clinic established to serve the employed who could not afford insurance.
She is survived by her children, Julie (Flemming) Pedersen of Arizona, James (Sherry) Ralston of Kansas and Rick (ZuZu Montoya) Ralston of Georgia; her grandchildren, Shawn Barnes, Jason Ralston, Christie Ralston and Alex Ralston and her siblings, Roslyn Hartman, Wanda LaBounty and Mickey Rogers.
Jo-an will be laid to rest in a private burial at the Spring Hill Presbyterian Church in Beecher City, Illinois.
Upon her death Jo-an left an endowment to the South Louisiana Community College School of Nursing.
Fountain Memorial Funeral Home and Cemetery, 1010 Pandora St., is in charge of arrangements.
January 25, 1936 - December 28, 2017
Norma Joan (“Jo-an”) Ralston, age 81, passed away peacefully at her home in Lafayette, Louisiana on December 28, 2017, after a short battle with cancer.
An avid reader and volunteer she cultivated and valued many friendships in her adopted state.
Born in 1936, in Wright’s Corner, Illinois to Thomas and Caddie Rogers, Jo-an attended Wright’s Country Grade School and later St. Elmo High School, graduating in 1954. She was active in the Girls Athletic Association, the school newspaper and the school yearbook. She met her future husband, Jimmy Dale (“Jim”) Ralston at school and they were married in 1954.
Jo-an received her beauty school certificate and opened a salon at their home. Later she was the first employee hired by Dr. Judson Phillips, M.D. when he opened his office in Altamont. Over the next 35 years, they moved many times for Jim’s work with Mobile Oil (later Exxon) and raised three children. When living in northern Florida, Jo-an received her associate’s degree in LPN training and worked as a nurse. Their last home together was in Crowley, LA where Jo-an worked at the American Legion Hospital.
Jim died of colon cancer in 1989, and Jo-an later moved to Lafayette where she volunteered with Hospice, Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center and Lafayette Community Health Center, a clinic established to serve the employed who could not afford insurance.
She is survived by her children, Julie (Flemming) Pedersen of Arizona, James (Sherry) Ralston of Kansas and Rick (ZuZu Montoya) Ralston of Georgia; her grandchildren, Shawn Barnes, Jason Ralston, Christie Ralston and Alex Ralston and her siblings, Roslyn Hartman, Wanda LaBounty and Mickey Rogers.
Jo-an will be laid to rest in a private burial at the Spring Hill Presbyterian Church in Beecher City, Illinois.
Upon her death Jo-an left an endowment to the South Louisiana Community College School of Nursing.
Fountain Memorial Funeral Home and Cemetery, 1010 Pandora St., is in charge of arrangements.
Norma Joan (“Jo-an”) Ralston, age 81, passed away peacefully at her home in Lafayette, Louisiana on December 28, 2017, after a short battle with cancer.
An avid reader and volunteer she cultivated and valued many friendships in her adopted state.
Born in 1936, in Wright’s Corner, Illinois to Thomas and Caddie Rogers, Jo-an attended Wright’s Country Grade School and later St. Elmo High School, graduating in 1954. She was active in the Girls Athletic Association, the school newspaper and the school yearbook. She met her future husband, Jimmy Dale (“Jim”) Ralston at school and they were married in 1954.
Jo-an received her beauty school certificate and opened a salon at their home. Later she was the first employee hired by Dr. Judson Phillips, M.D. when he opened his office in Altamont. Over the next 35 years, they moved many times for Jim’s work with Mobile Oil (later Exxon) and raised three children. When living in northern Florida, Jo-an received her associate’s degree in LPN training and worked as a nurse. Their last home together was in Crowley, LA where Jo-an worked at the American Legion Hospital.
Jim died of colon cancer in 1989, and Jo-an later moved to Lafayette where she volunteered with Hospice, Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center and Lafayette Community Health Center, a clinic established to serve the employed who could not afford insurance.
She is survived by her children, Julie (Flemming) Pedersen of Arizona, James (Sherry) Ralston of Kansas and Rick (ZuZu Montoya) Ralston of Georgia; her grandchildren, Shawn Barnes, Jason Ralston, Christie Ralston and Alex Ralston and her siblings, Roslyn Hartman, Wanda LaBounty and Mickey Rogers.
Jo-an will be laid to rest in a private burial at the Spring Hill Presbyterian Church in Beecher City, Illinois.
Upon her death Jo-an left an endowment to the South Louisiana Community College School of Nursing.
Fountain Memorial Funeral Home and Cemetery, 1010 Pandora St., is in charge of arrangements.
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