E. J. Questa was born in 1898. He was the president of the First National Bank of Nevada and was an influential businessman in Nevada. He died on February 10, 1962 in a plane crash thirty miles northeast of Tonopah, Nevada while he and Newton J. Crumley were flying to Elko, Nevada.

Sources:

Nevada Banking History Collection, 1870-1976. MS-00257. Special Collections and Archives,

University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada