Ernest Lyvonne Mercer (1926 - 2001)

Born 24 Dec 1926 in Florida, USA

Ernest Mercer is buried in Tallahassee Memory Gardens.

Biography

Ernest was born in 1926.

Ernest enlisted in the US Army in 1945 and served during WWII. He was single at the time. His record indicated that he had only one year of high school, and worked as a meatcutter.^[1]

Ernest married Rosa Lee Dunaway.

He passed away in 2001.^[2] Burial was in the Memory Gardens Cemetery in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida.^[3] His grave marker is inscribed: PFC US Army World War II. He shares a grave marker with his wife, Rosa.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8BX-G52 : 5 December 2014), Ernest L Mercer, enlisted 26 May 1945, Cp Blanding, Florida, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 126323, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
2. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JY82-DX9 : 20 May 2014), Ernest L Mercer, 03 Sep 2001; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
3. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGS-VMSL : 13 December 2015), Ernest Lyvonne Mercer, 2001; Burial, Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, United States of America, Memory Gardens Cemetery; citing record ID 111710852, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
4. ↑ Information recorded by Carolyn Martin from grave marker at the Garden of Devotion in Tallahassee Memory Gardens (cemetery), Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, USA.