Orange County FlArchives Obituaries.....Gertner, Ernest R. April 30, 1973
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Orlando Sentinel-Star, May 2, 1973
Ernest R. Gertner, 71, former owner of Gertner Meat Packers here and active in 
Masonic, church, and civic affairs, died Monday at his 3025 Carmia Drive home.

A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Gertner moved to Orlando in 1939 from 
Indianapolis, Indiana, and started his own meat packing business in November of 
that year with two employees.

When he sold the firm to George A. Hormel and Company in August of 1967, it had 
grown to 50 employees with a modern plant at 3854 S. Orange Avenue.

He was president of E.R. Gertner and Company, Inc., holding company; president 
of Florida Meat Brokers, Inc.; a past vice-president and director of Sun Bank 
of South Orlando; past director of the Florida Wholesalers Association, and a 
past director of the National Association of Meat Purveyors.

He also was past president of the Rotary Club of Orlando, a past president of 
Juior Achievement of Orange County, Inc., a past director of the Orlando Area 
Chamber of Commerce, a past director of the Orange County YMCA, and past 
president of the Daytona Beach YMCA.

He was a 32nd degree Mason, Mokanna Lodge 329, F.& A.M., Orlando, a member of 
the York and Scottish Rites, a charter member of the Bahia Shrine Temple and 
past patron of Orlando Chapter 131, Order of the Eastern Star.

A deacon of the First Baptist Church of Orlando, Mr. Gertner was also past 
president of its W.R. Clarke men's Bible Class and its young people's 
department.  He was, in addition, president of Christ for the World, Inc.

Survivors: widow Mamie Eloise Nolan Gertner; son, Ernest R., Jr., a vice-
president of Quigley Publications, New York City, publisher of "Motion Picture 
Herald"; daughter Mrs. C.V. (Elizabeth) Williams, Jr., Melbourne; brothers 
Harold, Gainesville, and Charles A., Jacksonville; sisters, Mrs. Amy Brooks, El 
Paso, Texas, Mrs. Jane McDonald, Neptune Beach; and two grandsons (Michael & 
Mark Williams).

W. Guy Black Home for Funerals, 170 E. Church Street, Orlando.

Additional Comments:
Separate funeral notice announced time of services as 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 
3, 1973, in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church, with entombment following at 
Woodlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum.  Rev. Dr. Henry A. Parker officiated.  Active 
pallbearers: Ivan D. Morgan, Judson B. Walker, Otis L. Taylor, M. Dee Rice, 
Fred Dixon, Charles E. LeGette, R. N. "Rick" Turnbow, and Claude G. Hunter.

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