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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.
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- Ernest Edgar Hicks
- He was born in Tennessee. US Census records show him living in Fruita, Colorado with his parents by the time he was 18. He married Maude Hicks in 1920. He was a coal miner and barber. He had a barber shop in Delta and one in Palisade in the 1930’s.
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- Ernest Glen "Ernie" Maurer
- He was born in What Cheer, Iowa to William Casper Maurer and Anna (Kavanaugh) Maurer. His mother died when he was five years old. The 1910 US Census shows the remaining family living on a farm near the town of Prairie, Iowa when Ernie was nine years old, with two older brothers and one older sister. He attended high school in Burlington, Iowa and then went to Barnes Business College in Denver, Colorado in 1924. He married Leone Dodson in Denver on May 27, 1926. He first came to Mesa County, Colorado in 1923 to visit his brother and sister. He went to work as a shipping clerk, getting orders to market for the United Fruit Growers Association, a newly formed cooperative. He also worked on the Orchard Mesa Canal. He bought an orchard in the Vineland area of Palisade in 1927 and then expanded his land holdings. The 1930 and 1940 US Censuses shows Ernest and Leone living with their son in east Palisade. He was a board member of the Mesa County Peach Administrative Committee when it was organized in 1939. He died at the age of eighty-two.
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- Ernest L. Brownson
- Ernest was the oldest son of William W. and Henrietta (Harrigan) Brownson. He was born on 28 Dec 1889 in Salida, Colorado and died April 1962 in Clearwater, Florida.