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Caucasian/White male Ronald R. Ernst, age 41, died on May 4, 1985. Online traces of his life anchor him in Alaska in the mid-1980s, and a short memorial profile fixes his date of death while family-history entries echo the same day, giving only the barest biographical lines: a name, a date, and a life cut short.
Fragments of record hint at a quiet, dutiful man. A veterans headstone in McGahan Cemetery in Nikiski names “Ronald R. Ernst,” marking him as a U.S. Navy Aviation Machinist' ...Read More
Caucasian/White male Ronald R. Ernst, age 41, died on May 4, 1985. Online traces of his life anchor him in Alaska in the mid-1980s, and a short memorial profile fixes his date of death while family-history entries echo the same day, giving only the barest biographical lines: a name, a date, and a life cut short.
Fragments of record hint at a quiet, dutiful man. A veterans headstone in McGahan Cemetery in Nikiski names “Ronald R. Ernst,” marking him as a U.S. Navy Aviation Machinist' ...Read More
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Ronald Ernst
December 14, 2022
Male
Caucasian / White
Anchorage
AK
1985-05-04
1985-05-04
41
Ronald
Ernst
11/28/2025
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