People
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- Erma Lee Brewster Watters
- Resident of Gunnison County, Colorado.
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- Ermie Siess
- She was a teacher at Pear Park Elementary School in Mesa County, Colorado in the early Twentieth century. The corner of Patterson and 29 Rd. was called the Siess Corner because that was where her parents lived.
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- Ernest "Swede" Guerrieri
- Resident of Gunnison County, Colorado.
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- Ernest Albert Nesbit
- Resident of Gunnison County, Colorado.
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- Ernest Antonio Perry
- A United States Navy Veteran who served on the U.S.S. Helena during World War II. He was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to Rose (Chiodo) Perry and Eugene Biassi Perry. His father was a section foreman for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. His mother was a homemaker. He attended Emerson Elementary in Grand Junction, then Grand Junction High School. He did not enjoy school and dropped out to enlist in the Navy before graduating. He was present on the Helena during the attack on Pearl Harbor, when he was about nineteen years old, but was unhurt. The Helena proceeded to contribute greatly to the U.S. offensive in the Pacific. The Helena was sunk in the Battle of Kula Gulf, and Ernest and 165 men drifted at sea for 58 hours before washing ashore on the Japanese-occupied Vella Lavella Island, one of the Soloman Islands. His mother, Rose, recalled a story he told where Ernest tried to climb on a little raft after the Helena was sunk, and an officer asked him if he was a fellow officer. He said “No.” and the officer pushed him back in the water. Ernest caught malaria on Vella Lavella and was taken care of by a family of Chinese coconut farmers. They were rescued over thirty days later. Ernest was discharged and sent to Australia, then a veteran’s hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia to treat his malaria. He spent the years after the war in a deep depression, and often went in and out of the veteran’s hospital in Grand Junction. He was employed by the Lucius Pitkin Inc. as a janitor under contract for the Atomic Energy Commission. On July 17, 1962, he committed suicide with a loaded revolver after walking into the guard house at his work.
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- Ernest B. Guthrie
- An interviewer for the Mesa County Oral History Project.