He moved with his family to Lewiston, Idaho and later lived in Bellingham while Ervin Sr. worked for the Brown and Hawkins Company in Alaska.
Ervin Jr. married Velma Lucille Flora Brown in 1937.
In 1951, Ervin and Velma moved to Seward, Alaska, where they operated a garage.
In 1959, they moved back to Anchorage, where Ervin took a position with the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
He is buried, along with Velma, who died in 2005, in Acacia Memorial Park, near Seattle.