Florence "Flo" Aderhold

Florence "Flo" Ellen Ryder Aderhold went to meet her Lord on Sunday morning October 19, 2025 at 6:30am, at the age of 93. She had been away from home for less than a week and was at St. Francis Reflections Hospice in Melbourne, Florida. Her grandson, Lucas was holding her hand as she passed.

Flo was married 53 years before her husband, Harold passed in 2009. She is survived by her sons, Terry (Amy), Timothy (Denise), Randy and jay (Claudia); her daughter, Wendy Miller. Here grandchildren, Stacey Pacheco, Leslie Aderhold, Michael Aderhold, Brandon Aderhold, Melissa McDavid, Amanda Aderhold and Nathan Miller. She also has 13 great grandchildren. Debbie and Stanley Ryder, her brother Dale's children and Dee and Bobby Rhinehart, her sister's Dru's children.

Florence was born on June 27, 1932 to parents, Clyde and Minnie Ryder in Ithaca, New York. She continued to grow up with her tow siblings, Dale and Dru. The family worshiped together at the local Baptist church, where Florence met her husband, Harold Leslie Aderhold and raised 5 children. While raising their children, Harold and Florence attended night school and got their high school diplomas. Florence then went to school to become a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN). During this time, she became President of the Williamsport Parent Teachers Association (PTA). she also sand in her church's choir , taught Sunday school and attended church religiously at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Eventually, she and her husband moved to Melbourne, Florida, where they started and became charter members of the Faith Baptist Church of Palm Bay, Florida. Harold was always working at the church on some type of project and flo was always singing in the choir, involved in many ways, teaching the bible and leading others into Christ. She attended Nursing School and received her BSN and became a licensed Registered Nurse.

If that wasn't enough, she worked full time at Holmes Regional Medical Center where she worked on the IV team and got the nickname "The Humming Nurse." She also found time to go on medical missions to Haiti.

She was truly loved by family, friends and those who knew her. She will be missed, but never forgotten because of the impact she made on those who met and loved her.

She lived with love, compassion and an abundance of energy that would put mose 70 year olds to shame She was and always be our beloved teacher, guide and mother.

A visitation will be held at the Life Event Center at Florida Memorial, located at 5950 South US Highway 1, Rockledge, Florida, on October 29, 2025, from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm.

The funeral service will follow at the same location, starting at 2:30 pm.

A committal service will take place at Florida Memorial Gardens, also at 5950 South US Highway 1, Rockledge, Florida, on October 29, 2025, beginning at 3:00 pm.