IT is with deep regret and with sincere sympathy for the many friends and pupils of our beloved associate and co-worker, Mrs. Nelvia E. Ritchie, C.S.B., that we report her passing on at her home in Chestnut Hill, Newton, Massachusetts, on Friday, May 7.
For many years Mrs. Ritchie served the Cause of Christian Science actively and faithfully. Since 1934 she had been a member of The Christian Science Board of Directors, having succeeded Mrs. Annie M. Knott in that position.
Mrs. Ritchie was born in Marion County, Iowa. She was educated in the schools of Kansas and Missouri. Mrs. Ritchie became interested in Christian Science through the healing of her husband, Alva Bradley Ritchie, of a serious illness. In 1907 Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie united in membership with The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and with Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Kansas City, Missouri.
