This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/11865 Message Board Post: Ernest W. Pilkey TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Ernest William Pilkey, 81, died Tuesday in Tallahassee. He was born in Jamestown, N.Y. to the late Ernest W. D.D.S. and Clara (Bishop), moving to Tallahassee from New Jersey 20 years ago. Mr. Pilkey was a veteran of World War II, serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theater. He was a 1948 graduate of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa. and worked as vice president of Columbia House Records, a division of C.B.S. in New York. He was a retired purchaser with C.B.S. in New York. Mr. Pilkey was predeceased by his sister, Mary Jane Erickson. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Doris (Haffner); three daughters, Barbara Everett, of West Caldwell, N.J., Marsha Riggs, of St. Louis, Mo. and Camilla Ruben, of Evans, W.Va.; a sister, Betty Ann Wilson, of Westfield, N.Y.; nine grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.