Ernest Willis Tucker (abt. 1928 - 2001)

Born about 1928 in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States

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Died 13 Apr 2001 at about age 73 in Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States

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Biography

Ernest Willis Tucker was born circa 1928 in Colorado Springs, Colorado to Ernest and Amy Townsend Tucker. He was the youngest of six children born to the couple, but he has six half-siblings from his father's first marriage.

Ernest was raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The family returned to their original home in Kanawha County, West Virginia by 1934. In 1935, his mother died. The family lived in Cabin Creek, West Virginia.

On February 16, 1946, Ernest registered in Camp Atterbury in Colombus, Indiana to serve in the United States Army in the Panama Canal Department.

By 1950, he had returned to Colorado. He was working as a delivery man and living in Ivywild, Colorado with in his sister and brother-in-law's home (along with his widowed father). In 1957, he was listed as living in Manhattan Beach, California.

Ernest married a woman named Betty and had two children, both daughters. He worked as an engineer.

Ernest died on April 13, 2001 in Santa Ana, California. He was 73 years old.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X747-2ZK : accessed 31 October 2022), Ernest W Tucker in household of Ernest W Tucker, Election Precinct 68, El Paso, Colorado, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 79, sheet , line , family , NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll ; FHL microfilm .
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7CX-BNH : 8 January 2021), Ernest W Tucker in household of Ernest W Tucker, Cabin Creek Magisterial District, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 20-16A, sheet 26A, line 35, family 450, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4412.
• "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KM2S-HPV : 5 December 2014), Ernest W Tucker, enlisted 16 Feb 1946, Cp Atterbury, Columbus, Indiana, 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 1263923, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FMV-3YW4
• "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5W-34QG : accessed 31 October 2022), Ernest Tucker in entry for Mrs Shirley S Bennett, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, 29 Jul 1989; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing , born-digital text.
• "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKK2-63M5 : accessed 31 October 2022), Ernest Willis Tucker, Santa Ana, California, United States, 18 Apr 2001; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Orange County Register, The, born-digital text.