Ralph A. Erickson

Dear Erickson family,

I may have met Ralph only once or twice when I was a child, but my mother and father (Jack and Erlaine Cartlidge) always spoke so highly of him. When my father became very ill (he passed away in May of this year) we spent many hours working on memoirs and figuring heavily into that were stories about Ralph. He told me how Ralph had been the one to get him started in monumental art (the St. Francis and other commissions). I believe that he also suggested that my...