The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, was Edward's favorite book, as a child, and he
tried to follow its example of stoicism and independence. He moved, with his parent's and his maternal grandparents, from
Schennectady NY to Summerland BC, in 1919, at the age of nine. The family travelled down Okanagan Lake by paddlewheeler and
farmed a small orchard at Trout Creek Point.
Edward grew up to marry Gladys Smith, born in Moose Jaw, SA (Saskatchewan) who was working at the Summerland
Experimental Farm, at the time. Edward was away, working at Fort Edmonton, for Lord Rodney, and met Gladys on a trip home.
Edward worked as a truck driver and salesman in Vancouver before moving back to Summerland. He retired from
the Summerland Experimental Farm and took up farming full time, selling his fruit from the farm. He was a highly-principled, intelligent
man who loved reading and meeting people from all over the world and was a long-time member of the Pentecostal Church.
In his 70s, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer which had metastasized to three places in his bones. He tossed
the prescribed "pink pills" and went on a strict macrobiotic diet. He lived a healthy life for the next ten years until
he developed cancer of the jaw which the doctors said was unrelated to the previous cancer. He died, age 86, of a heart attack during
surgery.
His wife died just short of her 96th birthday.
