Ernest Leslie George (Preitz) Price (1918 - 1997)

Ernest's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Price family tree.

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Ernest's Parents

Otto Preitz

Maud Eleanor Pearce

Winfred Maud Preitz Mary Ruth Preitz Allen Alec Preitz Ernest Leslie George (Preitz) Price

Fredrick William Preitz Muriel May Preitz Colin Vernon Preitz Phyllis Cavell Preitz

Parents:

Otto Preitz

1866 - May 22, 1936

Maud Eleanor Pearce

1866 - Oct 28, 1945

Siblings:

Fredrick William Preitz

1908 - 1981

Winfred Maud Preitz

1910 - Unknown

Muriel May Preitz

1919 - 2018

Mary Ruth Preitz

1919 - 1992

Colin Vernon Preitz

1926 - 2001

Allen Alec Preitz

Unknown - Unknown

Phyllis Cavell Preitz

Unknown - Unknown

Relationships:

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Ernest Leslie George (Preitz) Price & Doris May Pryor

Ernest Leslie George (Preitz) Price

Doris May Pryor

Kevin Leslie Price Wayne Gordon Price Carl Robertson Price

Peter Terence Price Leigh Yvonne (Price) Craig

Spouse:

Doris May Pryor

1927 - Unknown

Children:

Kevin Leslie Price

1951 - Unknown

Peter Terence Price

1954 - Unknown

Wayne Gordon Price

1955 - Unknown

Leigh Yvonne (Price) Craig

1958 - Unknown

Carl Robertson Price

Jan 6, 1962 - Unknown

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In 1918, in the year that Ernest Leslie George (Preitz) Price was born, federal spending was $12.68 billion, unemployment was 1.4% and the cost of a first-class stamp was 3 cents.

In 1945, at the age of 27 years old, Ernest was alive when on April 12th, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. At 1p, he was sitting for a portrait when he complained that he had a "terrific pain" in the back of his head and collapsed. A doctor was summoned and the doctor gave him a shot of adrenaline into his heart. It didn't help and he was pronounced dead at 3:30 p.m. A slow moving train took him back to Washington D.C. while thousands of mourners lined the tracks. He was buried at his home in Hyde Park, New York.

In 1957, Ernest was 39 years old when on September 24th, the "Little Rock Nine" (nine African-American students) entered Little Rock High School. Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus had previously prevented the students from entering the school at the beginning of the term with the Arkansas National Guard - they blocked the door. President Eisenhower ordered federal troops - the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army - to guard the students and allow them entry.

In 1963, he was 45 years old when the British Secretary of War, 46 year old John Profumo ,was forced to resign when he lied about an affair with 19 year old Christine Keeler. Keeler was also involved with the Soviet naval attaché and charges of espionage were feared. No proof of spying was ever found.

In 1997, in the year of Ernest Leslie George (Preitz) Price's passing, on June 26th, the first Harry Potter book by J. K. Rowling was released. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was an immediate success and spawned not only sequels but also movies, video games, plays, and amusement park attractions. J.K. Rowling, at the time of the first book a poor single mother, has become a multi-billionaire.