November 14, 1970 ... Remembered

Memorial of the 1970 Marshall University Football Team Plane Crash

HELEN BANDA RALSTON

Helen Banda Ralston was born in 1938 in Weirton, West Virginia. She was the daughter of Milan and Mildred Bastaja Banda. A graduate of Marshall University, she had been a school teacher in Chesapeake, Ohio. Her husband, Murrill, died on the plane with him. They left a son, Murrill Ralston, III, and a daughter, Mollie.

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