Re: [Texascavers] Ernie Garza Second Line

[Logan]

Sounds like great fun!

On 10/4/2019 3:35 PM, Vivian Loftin wrote:

  We'll be sending Ernie off in high style at TCR this year. The Ernie 
Garza Memorial Band will be leading a short Second Line (New Orleans style 
funeral parade) in his honor. It will be right after dinner. So come prepared 
to sing and dance along. Parasols and fancy hats encouraged.
  If you play an instrument, please join the band! Email me privately for 
charts. Or just show up with a tambourine or whatever.
-Vivian Loftin
  
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Re: [Texascavers] Ernie Garza Second Line

[Andrew Gluesenkamp]

Harmonica in hand!  I don’t need no stinking charts. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Oct 4, 2019, at 3:35 PM, Vivian Loftin  wrote:
> 
> We'll be sending Ernie off in high style at TCR this year. The Ernie 
> Garza Memorial Band will be leading a short Second Line (New Orleans style 
> funeral parade) in his honor. It will be right after dinner. So come prepared 
> to sing and dance along. Parasols and fancy hats encouraged. 
> If you play an instrument, please join the band! Email me privately for 
> charts. Or just show up with a tambourine or whatever.
> -Vivian Loftin
> 
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[Texascavers] Ernie Garza Second Line

[Vivian Loftin]

 We'll be sending Ernie off in high style at TCR this year. The Ernie Garza 
Memorial Band will be leading a short Second Line (New Orleans style funeral 
parade) in his honor. It will be right after dinner. So come prepared to sing 
and dance along. Parasols and fancy hats encouraged. 
 If you play an instrument, please join the band! Email me privately for 
charts. Or just show up with a tambourine or whatever.
-Vivian Loftin
 
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Re: [Texascavers] Ernie Garza

[William R. Elliott]

Dear Drew,

Thanks for your tribute to Ernie Garza, which I am sharing on the
TexasCavers list. You can see a longer biography of Ernie at
http://cavelife.info/hall/hall.htm

I traveled with Ernie to the Texas Caver Reunion in 2018, and we had good
discussions about caves, people, and books. I will not forget him either.

Thanks,

*William R. (Bill) Elliott*

*speodes...@gmail.com *

573-291-5093 cell


On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 12:31 PM Packman, Drew M 
wrote:

> I was so sad to see Ernie’s obit in the NSS news this month. I happened
> upon your site “The Hall of Texas and Mexico Cavers” when I researched his
> name today.
>
> I will never forget Ernie and his ability to carry a load or shoulder a
> burden. I enjoyed his company on multiple expeditions in Oaxaca.
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Re: [Texascavers] Ernie Garza obituary

[Linda Palit]

Thanks, Bill.

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 11:51 AM William R. Elliott 
wrote:

> *Ernie Garza*
>
> *NSS 13484-FE, CM *
> July 20, 1938 – August 16, 2019
>
> *Note:* This is the obituary sent on 23 August 2019 to the *NSS News*,
> which will contain one or two photos. For a longer biography of Ernie Garza
> with many photos and citations, see *The Hall of Texas and Mexico Cavers*,
> established today at http://cavelife.info/
>
> International caver and creative photographer, *Ernest Garza*, was born
> in Brownsville, Texas. He grew up in Corpus Christi and southern
> California. Nicknamed Ernie and Ernesto, he was a skilled caver,
> photographer, and friend to many. Ernie passed away at his residence in
> Austin, Texas, age 81, with friend Vivian Loftin by his side. His family
> and friends are mourning his death, so soon after his close friend and
> neighbor, Don Broussard, passed away on May 16. Ernie passed away after
> recent stays in the hospital and nursing home, then spending his final
> weeks in Austin, living under the watchful eyes of cavers Yazmin Avila and
> Jim Kennedy.
>
> Logan McNatt and Barbara Vinson interviewed him in June to learn more
> about his life. Logan and Terry Holsinger went through some of his slides
> and photo prints to get them ready for friends to organize and scan. There
> are numerous albums in storage cabinets and elsewhere.
>
> His cousin, Tavita Alvarado, remembers Ernie attending W.B. Ray High
> School in Corpus Christi, Texas. She recalled Ernie as a diver who would
> bring sea collections to his family. Rune Burnett said that Ernie worked in
> undersea welding for a time. He became independent of his parents, Ramon
> and Esther Salinas Garza, at age 15 or 16. He was in the Los Angeles area
> for junior high, where he started learning photography. He worked in
> photography at McGreggor Studios in Corpus Christi in high school.
>
> He served in the Army at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, in 1961-1963, where he
> learned advanced photography. He was back in Corpus in 1965 and California
> 1966-1994. He often came to Austin via expeditions to Mexico, and in 1994
> he moved to Terry Raines’ old house on Parkwood near Mueller Airport. He
> rented 473 Limestone Lane, Driftwood, and then he bought his country place
> on 444 Billie Brooks Road.
>
> The first caving photo we have of him was at Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, in
> 1966. He made trips to the Sierra de El Abra, San Luis Potosí and
> Cuetzalan, Puebla. He focused on Oaxaca, where he caved in the Huautla Area
> and the Cerro Rabón. His name is on at least 23 Mexican cave maps, and he
> explored and photographed many others.
>
> Ernie went on many trips to Mexico and a few Texas caves. He published
> cave photos, trip reports, reviews and articles. He received an NSS Fellow
> award in 1988, and he and Karlin Meyers received a Certificate of Merit
> Award in 1993 for pioneering the Cerro Rabón in Oaxaca, where there are
> many deep caves.
>
> In California he lived in Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Monterey Park
> and Los Angeles, and he was a member of the Southern California Grotto. He
> went caving with Frank Binney, Dave Bunnell, Carol Vesely, Bob Richards,
> Steve Slocomb, John Woods, Blane Colton, Bill Deane and others. Ernie and
> John Woods went in many California caves: Lilburn Cave (survey trips),
> Church Cave, Soldier's Cave, Cave of the Winding Stair (survey trips),
> Crystal '67 (Houghton's Cave). Ernie and John caved in Arizona at Onyx Cave
> (survey trips), Cave of the Bells, SP Cave, Fort Huachuca Cave and Dante's
> Descent. They also travelled around Nevada and made brief sorties together
> into the Grand Canyon and Northern Mexico around Hermosillo. He assisted
> Dave Bunnell in mapping Painted Cave, California, for years the largest
> surveyed sea cave in the world. He surprised everyone by pulling out two
> helium-filled Snoopy balloons that he used to measure the 130-foot ceiling.
> Ernie also went on a big 1982 expedition to Mount Kaijende, Papua New
> Guinea. Details of his career with citations are in a long biography
> compiled by Elliott, available at http://cavelife.info/
>
> John Woods said, “Ernie Garza is the studliest nerd who ever walked the
> planet and an eccentric among eccentrics. He has done things that macho men
> fear and yet has always remained self-effacing, gentle and kind. He is one
> of the most soft-spoken men I have even known. I used to joke that he had
> no adrenal glands. Both his eccentricity and his humility are legendary
> among cavers. I can truly say that all who meet him – care for him. I have
> never met a more affable man.”
>
> Ernie hardly reacted when a massive rock fall nearly nailed his caving
> group in Dante's Descent, Arizona. Ernie emerged from a cloud of dust and
> said, “That was exciting.” Ernie was constantly forgetting his caving
> helmet. Once he bought a straw hat to replace his forgotten helmet at
> Millerton Lakes Cave, CA. He taped a carbide lamp to the ha

[Texascavers] Ernie Garza obituary

[William R. Elliott]

*Ernie Garza*

*NSS 13484-FE, CM *
July 20, 1938 – August 16, 2019

*Note:* This is the obituary sent on 23 August 2019 to the *NSS News*,
which will contain one or two photos. For a longer biography of Ernie Garza
with many photos and citations, see *The Hall of Texas and Mexico Cavers*,
established today at http://cavelife.info/

International caver and creative photographer, *Ernest Garza*, was born in
Brownsville, Texas. He grew up in Corpus Christi and southern California.
Nicknamed Ernie and Ernesto, he was a skilled caver, photographer, and
friend to many. Ernie passed away at his residence in Austin, Texas, age
81, with friend Vivian Loftin by his side. His family and friends are
mourning his death, so soon after his close friend and neighbor, Don
Broussard, passed away on May 16. Ernie passed away after recent stays in
the hospital and nursing home, then spending his final weeks in Austin,
living under the watchful eyes of cavers Yazmin Avila and Jim Kennedy.

Logan McNatt and Barbara Vinson interviewed him in June to learn more about
his life. Logan and Terry Holsinger went through some of his slides and
photo prints to get them ready for friends to organize and scan. There are
numerous albums in storage cabinets and elsewhere.

His cousin, Tavita Alvarado, remembers Ernie attending W.B. Ray High School
in Corpus Christi, Texas. She recalled Ernie as a diver who would bring sea
collections to his family. Rune Burnett said that Ernie worked in undersea
welding for a time. He became independent of his parents, Ramon and Esther
Salinas Garza, at age 15 or 16. He was in the Los Angeles area for junior
high, where he started learning photography. He worked in photography at
McGreggor Studios in Corpus Christi in high school.

He served in the Army at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, in 1961-1963, where he
learned advanced photography. He was back in Corpus in 1965 and California
1966-1994. He often came to Austin via expeditions to Mexico, and in 1994
he moved to Terry Raines’ old house on Parkwood near Mueller Airport. He
rented 473 Limestone Lane, Driftwood, and then he bought his country place
on 444 Billie Brooks Road.

The first caving photo we have of him was at Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, in
1966. He made trips to the Sierra de El Abra, San Luis Potosí and
Cuetzalan, Puebla. He focused on Oaxaca, where he caved in the Huautla Area
and the Cerro Rabón. His name is on at least 23 Mexican cave maps, and he
explored and photographed many others.

Ernie went on many trips to Mexico and a few Texas caves. He published cave
photos, trip reports, reviews and articles. He received an NSS Fellow award
in 1988, and he and Karlin Meyers received a Certificate of Merit Award in
1993 for pioneering the Cerro Rabón in Oaxaca, where there are many deep
caves.

In California he lived in Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Monterey Park and
Los Angeles, and he was a member of the Southern California Grotto. He went
caving with Frank Binney, Dave Bunnell, Carol Vesely, Bob Richards, Steve
Slocomb, John Woods, Blane Colton, Bill Deane and others. Ernie and John
Woods went in many California caves: Lilburn Cave (survey trips), Church
Cave, Soldier's Cave, Cave of the Winding Stair (survey trips), Crystal '67
(Houghton's Cave). Ernie and John caved in Arizona at Onyx Cave (survey
trips), Cave of the Bells, SP Cave, Fort Huachuca Cave and Dante's Descent.
They also travelled around Nevada and made brief sorties together into the
Grand Canyon and Northern Mexico around Hermosillo. He assisted Dave
Bunnell in mapping Painted Cave, California, for years the largest surveyed
sea cave in the world. He surprised everyone by pulling out two
helium-filled Snoopy balloons that he used to measure the 130-foot ceiling.
Ernie also went on a big 1982 expedition to Mount Kaijende, Papua New
Guinea. Details of his career with citations are in a long biography
compiled by Elliott, available at http://cavelife.info/

John Woods said, “Ernie Garza is the studliest nerd who ever walked the
planet and an eccentric among eccentrics. He has done things that macho men
fear and yet has always remained self-effacing, gentle and kind. He is one
of the most soft-spoken men I have even known. I used to joke that he had
no adrenal glands. Both his eccentricity and his humility are legendary
among cavers. I can truly say that all who meet him – care for him. I have
never met a more affable man.”

Ernie hardly reacted when a massive rock fall nearly nailed his caving
group in Dante's Descent, Arizona. Ernie emerged from a cloud of dust and
said, “That was exciting.” Ernie was constantly forgetting his caving
helmet. Once he bought a straw hat to replace his forgotten helmet at
Millerton Lakes Cave, CA. He taped a carbide lamp to the hat and everything
was fine until it caught fire in the cave while it was on his head. Ernie
never batted an eye. He put out the fire and kept on caving with a
smoldering “helmet.” Nothing could fluster him.

Ernie loved to photograp

Re: [Texascavers] Ernie Garza story

[mminton]

Bill's story about Ernie Garza reminded me of a similar story concerning 
Australian Rolf Adams (RIP). We were on a trip to Mexico in my school 
bus with a bunch of other Texas cavers. Rolf had inexplicably lost his 
passport, but he was blond and super Anglo-looking. The only problem was 
his Australian accent. If he said much of anything, his accent would 
have given him away. So as we approached the border we spent quite a 
while coaching him so that when the border guard asked, "All US 
citizens?", he would respond only, "Yep". We got his response to sound 
nearly perfect Texan, and indeed, when the time came it passed muster. 
We sailed through and they were never the wiser.


Mark Minton
mmin...@caver.net

On 2019-03-12 09:40, Bill Steele wrote:

There are countless stories about Mexico caving stalwart Ernie Garza.
In 2015 he joined us in Huautla during our PESH expedition and rode
back to the USA with me. He was worried about entering the USA because
he couldn’t find his passport. I shot this short video along the
way, when we stopped for lunch just north of Mexico City. In it Ernie
is asked what his plan is for crossing the border.

https://vimeo.com/279276822

Bill Steele
speleoste...@aol.com

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Re: [Texascavers] Ernie Garza story

[Geary Schindel]

Cool,

Thanks for sharing.

Geary

From: Texascavers  On Behalf Of Bill Steele
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 9:41 AM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers] Ernie Garza story

There are countless stories about Mexico caving stalwart Ernie Garza. In 2015 
he joined us in Huautla during our PESH expedition and rode back to the USA 
with me. He was worried about entering the USA because he couldn’t find his 
passport. I shot this short video along the way, when we stopped for lunch just 
north of Mexico City. In it Ernie is asked what his plan is for crossing the 
border.

https://vimeo.com/279276822

Bill Steele
speleoste...@aol.com<mailto:speleoste...@aol.com>
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[Texascavers] Ernie Garza story

[Bill Steele]

There are countless stories about Mexico caving stalwart Ernie Garza. In 2015 
he joined us in Huautla during our PESH expedition and rode back to the USA 
with me. He was worried about entering the USA because he couldn’t find his 
passport. I shot this short video along the way, when we stopped for lunch just 
north of Mexico City. In it Ernie is asked what his plan is for crossing the 
border. 

https://vimeo.com/279276822

Bill Steele 
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[Texascavers] Ernie Garza

[Nancy Weaver]

Ernie has entered rehab at Warm Springs in Kyle for a week or so of rehab 
following a major infection/fever/collapse over the weekend.  
He is in room 234, phone number  512.268.9807
He appreciates phone calls from friends. Visiting is problematic as he will be 
doing a lot of therapy and there is no fixed schedule.
As I find out more I’ll post to texascavers and UTG facebook.  I appreciate 
your support and am using all my avail. time to figure out how to proceed next, 
so would rather not get calls and emails for now.
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Re: [Texascavers] Ernie Garza cloned Facebook account

[Michael Gibbons]

The FBI has an internet fraid division.
The San Antonio office number is
210-225-6741. They take these things quite seriously.
Good luck finding anyone with Facebook.

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 12:52 PM Frank  If you recently accepted a Facebook friend request from “Ernest Garza”,
> you’ve been tricked by a hacker’s clone account. How to know the difference
> between Ernie’s real Facebook account and the clone? Ernie’s real account
> has a profile photo and 372 friends; the clone has no profile photo and
> under 30 friends (almost all gullible cavers).
> Can someone local help Ernie report the clone.
> Frank Binney
>
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[Texascavers] Ernie Garza cloned Facebook account

[Frank]

If you recently accepted a Facebook friend request from “Ernest Garza”, you’ve 
been tricked by a hacker’s clone account. How to know the difference between 
Ernie’s real Facebook account and the clone? Ernie’s real account has a profile 
photo and 372 friends; the clone has no profile photo and under 30 friends 
(almost all gullible cavers).
Can someone local help Ernie report the clone.
Frank Binney

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