Ervin G. Pearson, age 75, passed away on Wednesday, July 20, 2005. He was born to Samuel T. Pearson and Mary Lee Dale in Morganton, North Carolina on June 4, 1930. He was a graduate of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a graduate of the North Carolina School for the Deaf, and a retired chemist with the Bureau of Standards. He is survived by his sister Faye Wheeler of Orlando, Florida, his niece and great-nephew Alane Drexler and Chad Drexler of Orlando, Florida, and a nephew David Wheeler of Los Angeles, California.