Stolper, Ernest G.

Ernst married Miss Edith Baldwin Holden on Saturday (July 25, 1942) in St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church, with the Rev. Arthur F. O’Donnell officiating. A reception for the two families followed in the Holden home.

After graduation from Officers
Candidates School at Camp Lee,
Va., in January, 1943, Stolper was commissioned a second lieutenant
in the Quartermaster Corps, and
rapidly rose to the rank of Captain.
He commanded the 4371 QM Baking Co., the second largest static
QM baking company in the European Theatre, and saw action in
France and Germany from September, 1944 until his transfer to
Military Government in July, 1945.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernst G. Stolper,
and their three year old son Frank
C, of Westfield, New Jersey, and
Rye, are the oldest family residents
of Wiesbaden, Germany, where Mr.
Stolper is serving as Denazification
Operations Chief for CMG Hesse,
the second largest of the American occupied German states.

The Stolpers who celebrated their first anniversary in Wiesbaden in
May are planning to spend about
one more year with the Office of
Military Government for Hesse.

October 31, 1947
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Ernst served as an officer in the U.S. Army during World War II. He entered the Army in 1943 and reached the rank of colonel in 1968. He served in Europe, the Middle East and Africa during World War II, receiving the Army Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters.

During the Vietnam War, he received the Vietnam Commendation Medal, a Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit. He also served in the Korean War.
He last served at the Army Support Center in Philadelphia before retiring in 1970.

Later, Ernst was a sales representative in Reading, England, for Predco of Pennsauken, retiring in the mid-1980s. He had been an active member of Grace Episcopal Church in Merchantville and more recently at Trinity Episcopal Church in Moorestown, NJ. He served on the board of directors of the Evergreens in Moorestown for nearly a decade, including the nursing home’s period of expansion in the early 1990s.

Ernst G. Stolper, 84, a retired Army colonel and veteran of three wars, died Saturday November 25, 2000 at Virtua-Memorial Hospital Burlington County, Mount Holly, NJ. He had lived in the Evergreens in Moorestown for the last seven years.