I was reminiscing about old friends and thought of Eddie, did a search and boy was I happy to know his memory lives on. My parents were good friends with Ed, and I knew him my whole life 40+years) until his death a few years ago. He was one of the coolest people I ever knew. We knew him from the Packard club. When I was a kid, my mom would help pot up his hens and chicks for him to sell. We had them all over our gardens, though they are gone now. I think the deer got them. I like to think that whenever I see one that it might just be related to one of his.
Yes, he always drove Cadillac hearses--he loved them. He hadn't had a real job since he was a teenager, so he would just make money where he could. He sold his plants and Packard parts. He had a great business in the matchbook covers. He did paint branches and add glitter--such a simple idea and a very popular one at Christmas. He rented out the picnic area at his house to the nudists. He had an oil well on his property. He collected stamps--and we would save all our stamps and give them to him every year. His house was an old Victorian, and he claimed that it was haunted--saw the ghost of a lady a number of times. He was always "Busy, busy, busy."
I have saved all the letters I could find from him to my parents. They are so entertaining and so "Eddie." He would write on every available space of the paper and sideways up the margins. And then we had to save the stamp and give it back to him.
I have so many fond memories of Eddie. He really was a great guy. I was lucky to have known him. I still miss him.
