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- RAILROAD PHYSICIAN, BERKS NATIVE, DIES
Harrisburg, Feb. 6 - Stricken with a heart attack while attending Memorial Lutheran Sunday School yesterday, Dr. L. M. Ernst, medical examiner for the Pennsylvania Railroad, died a half hour later at his home, 2020 Market street.
Dr. Ernst, who was a deacon of Memorial Church, was 45 years old. He was medical examiner for the railroad company many years, having acted in such capacity at Sunbury, Greensburg, Monongahela City, Reading, Oil City, Trenton and Harrisburg.
Dr. Ernst came here from Sunbury, a year and a half ago. He was a native of Berks county, having been born near Reading. He was graduated from the Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown, and later was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1910. He was a member of Vaux Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, at Hamburg.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Florence Ernst; two children, Miss Ruth Ernst, a freshman at Wilson College, Chambersburg, and a son, Edgar, a junior at John Harris High School; his mother, Mrs. Emma Ernst, and a sister, Mrs. Florence Stewart, Philadelphia.
Published in The Reading Eagle - Monday, February 6, 1933.
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1887 - 1933 (45 years)
