Ralph was born in DeFuniak Springs, Fla. on March 14, 1934 on a kitchen table, in a boarding house, across the street from the Courthouse. His father was Clark Chandler and his mother was Edith Alease Rogers. They separated after only a couple of years of marriage. Ralph stayed with his mother and her family in DeFuniak Springs. He grew up the first six years of his life there until his grandfather(Earnest Cleveland Rogers)death in 1940. After that the family moved to Pensacola where he grew up all the way through High School. He mostly lived on Chase Street in downtown Pensacola and Kalash Street in Navy Point.
Ralph had many odd jobs as a boy. He collected soda bottles and tin foil rappers to recycle. He had paper routes, shinned shoes, tended chickens for his grandmother, and looked after his younger cousin Ann Wester Biggs the closest thing he had to a little sister. Not having a regular father he became involved in the 1st Baptist Church where several ministers guided him through his young life. He became a youth minister himself and sang in several church groups. He was the youth minister at Myrtle Grove Baptist Church for a short time. His leadership abilities became apparent and he was his classes president and King of several dances for Pensacola High School. He went first to Stetson University where he married, had two daughters, and was divorced not long afterward. After graduation he then joined the Navy and served several years as a junior officer.
He got married again to Nancy Lynn Mott on August 31, 1958, in Paris, Missouri and they had 5 children together. Eli John, William Jeffery, Roger Clark, Kathryn Lynn, and Edith Suzanne.
Before all his children where born and during he went to several Colleges and Universities including Columbia in New York City. He was also an ordained minister and chose, along with his wife, to become Presbyterians in Kansas City, Mo. in 1958. So much more later!
Ralph had many odd jobs as a boy. He collected soda bottles and tin foil rappers to recycle. He had paper routes, shinned shoes, tended chickens for his grandmother, and looked after his younger cousin Ann Wester Biggs the closest thing he had to a little sister. Not having a regular father he became involved in the 1st Baptist Church where several ministers guided him through his young life. He became a youth minister himself and sang in several church groups. He was the youth minister at Myrtle Grove Baptist Church for a short time. His leadership abilities became apparent and he was his classes president and King of several dances for Pensacola High School. He went first to Stetson University where he married, had two daughters, and was divorced not long afterward. After graduation he then joined the Navy and served several years as a junior officer.
He got married again to Nancy Lynn Mott on August 31, 1958, in Paris, Missouri and they had 5 children together. Eli John, William Jeffery, Roger Clark, Kathryn Lynn, and Edith Suzanne.
Before all his children where born and during he went to several Colleges and Universities including Columbia in New York City. He was also an ordained minister and chose, along with his wife, to become Presbyterians in Kansas City, Mo. in 1958. So much more later!
Ralph was born in DeFuniak Springs, Fla. on March 14, 1934 on a kitchen table, in a boarding house, across the street from the Courthouse. His father was Clark Chandler and his mother was Edith Alease Rogers. They separated after only a couple of years of marriage. Ralph stayed with his mother and her family in DeFuniak Springs. He grew up the first six years of his life there until his grandfather(Earnest Cleveland Rogers)death in 1940. After that the family moved to Pensacola where he grew up all the way through High School. He mostly lived on Chase Street in downtown Pensacola and Kalash Street in Navy Point.
Ralph had many odd jobs as a boy. He collected soda bottles and tin foil rappers to recycle. He had paper routes, shinned shoes, tended chickens for his grandmother, and looked after his younger cousin Ann Wester Biggs the closest thing he had to a little sister. Not having a regular father he became involved in the 1st Baptist Church where several ministers guided him through his young life. He became a youth minister himself and sang in several church groups. He was the youth minister at Myrtle Grove Baptist Church for a short time. His leadership abilities became apparent and he was his classes president and King of several dances for Pensacola High School. He went first to Stetson University where he married, had two daughters, and was divorced not long afterward. After graduation he then joined the Navy and served several years as a junior officer.
He got married again to Nancy Lynn Mott on August 31, 1958, in Paris, Missouri and they had 5 children together. Eli John, William Jeffery, Roger Clark, Kathryn Lynn, and Edith Suzanne.
Before all his children where born and during he went to several Colleges and Universities including Columbia in New York City. He was also an ordained minister and chose, along with his wife, to become Presbyterians in Kansas City, Mo. in 1958. So much more later!
Ralph had many odd jobs as a boy. He collected soda bottles and tin foil rappers to recycle. He had paper routes, shinned shoes, tended chickens for his grandmother, and looked after his younger cousin Ann Wester Biggs the closest thing he had to a little sister. Not having a regular father he became involved in the 1st Baptist Church where several ministers guided him through his young life. He became a youth minister himself and sang in several church groups. He was the youth minister at Myrtle Grove Baptist Church for a short time. His leadership abilities became apparent and he was his classes president and King of several dances for Pensacola High School. He went first to Stetson University where he married, had two daughters, and was divorced not long afterward. After graduation he then joined the Navy and served several years as a junior officer.
He got married again to Nancy Lynn Mott on August 31, 1958, in Paris, Missouri and they had 5 children together. Eli John, William Jeffery, Roger Clark, Kathryn Lynn, and Edith Suzanne.
Before all his children where born and during he went to several Colleges and Universities including Columbia in New York City. He was also an ordained minister and chose, along with his wife, to become Presbyterians in Kansas City, Mo. in 1958. So much more later!
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