I am trying to find out anything about Ernest Beall (middle initial possibly "J"), who was born in Virginia on June 21, 1914, the son of a Baptist minister. He worked for Columbia Records during the 1940s, then moved to San Francisco where he changed his name to "Beall J. Ernst" and started a necktie business which he ran until about 1974. It seems he left San Francisco sometime in the late '70s and died in Reno, Nevada in 1980. Can anyone with any information about him please contact me?