EHORN, Randall “Randy”

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Randy Ehorn, Buena High School, Ventura, 1980

EHORN, Randall “Randy” (1963-1991), son of Channel Islands National Park Superintendent, William “Bill” Ehorn, who grew up around Park headquarters. Randy worked for Island Packers as a deckhand and skiff operator aboard the Chieftan. He later got his 100-ton license. In addition, Randy worked on Santa Cruz Island for the Santa Cruz Island Hunt Club in summers both during archery and during the non-hunt summer season.

He moved to Alaska to work running shore boats at Glacier Bay out of Gustavus, Alaska. On August 14, 1991 at 7 p.m., a small Piper Cherokee Six, owned by Haines Airway in which Randy Ehorn was a passenger flying out of Gustavus to Haines, crashed in adverse weather. All six aboard were killed.