RITCHIE, CHESTER ARTHUR (1883-1941)

RITCHIE, CHESTER ARTHUR, United Church minister, Boiestown, 1930-33; b. Boston, Mass., 12 Mar 1883, s/o William Ritchie and Elizabeth Ford, formerly of New Bandon, Gloucester Co., N.B.; unmarried; d. Glace Bay, N.S., 27 Jul 1941.

Chester A. Ritchie was educated at Dalhousie University (1912-14) and trained for the ministry at the Presbyterian College in Halifax. Ordained in 1917, at age thirty-four, he served in Nova Scotia as a Presbyterian and United Church minister until called to Boiestown in 1930. When he departed he went to Canterbury, N.B. He remained there until 1935 and was later living "without charge" at Woodstock, and at Reserve Mines, N.S. It was stated that he was "a lover of ordinary people and particularly of little children." He was predeceased by a sister, and when he died in hospital in Glace Bay in 1941, at age fifty-eight, he had no named survivors.