YOUNGSTOWN Ernest Matthew Hight Sr., 90, passed away Thursday, March 4, 2021.
He was born in 1930 to parents Thomas and Josephine Brown Hight in McAndrews, Ky. In 1944, his family relocated to Williamson, W.Va., where he attended Liberty High School and graduated in 1949.
In 1950, he married Joanne Hairston and they relocated to Youngstown in 1952. Five children came from this glorious union and they also helped rear Joanne’s two younger brothers. They were married for 51 years when Joanne passed.
Ernest moved to Youngstown because of an opportunity to work for U.S. Steel. When he first moved there, he played AA baseball for the Buckeye Elks. He retired from U.S. Steel, but continued to be in the workforce throughout the years at Republic Steel, a convertible car plant in Austintown, as a bailiff for Judge Nathaniel Jones, and he ended his working years as a custodian at Cleveland Elementary School, where he retired at age 75.