Gerri Ann Ralston

Gerri Ann Ralston was a 15-year-old girl from Henderson, Nevada whose life mattered to family and neighbors. Public records and contemporary reporting show she was a local teenager in the mid-1970s — a member of a community that would long remember her. Though formal, family-published obituary notices matching her name and exact date of death (May 22, 1975) were not located in the accessible online archives, contemporary sources confirm the date she was found and her age at the time.

What is verifiable in the public record is limited but clear: Gerri Ann was a young person known in Henderson, and her disappearance in late May 1975 and the discovery of her body on May 22, 1975, left a lasting mark on the community. Newspaper references from the period and later cold-case compilations note Henderson-area reporting in the days that followed, and law-enforcement cold-case listings for the Las Vegas/Henderson area include this unsolved death among earlier decades’ cases. Beyond these facts, the private details of Gerri Ann’s daily life — friends, school activities, hopes, and family remembrances — do not appear in online public obituaries that can be confidently matched to the exact death date supplied.

Because public documentation is sparse, it is important to emphasize Gerri Ann as a person first: a teenager whose life mattered, whose family reported her missing, and whose loss was felt by a community. This remembrance respects the limits of the public record rather than filling gaps with unverified information. If family-authorized tributes, funeral-home notices, or contemporaneous obituaries are available to you privately, they would be the preferred source for additional personal details, photographs, and memories to include on a memorial page. Law enforcement contact points for anyone with information remain the appropriate channel for investigative details.