Edward (Ed) Huse Jr. also known as Eddie to his family, left us too early on the morning of Saturday, January 14th, 2023. Ed died from cardiac arrest after doing what he loved most, being at the gym, working out and playing basketball. Ed was born at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Ca on April 17, 1964. His intention toward physical fitness even after heart surgery in 2016 was a mainstay of his fifty-eight-year life, much of which was that of a semi-professional athlete. And that passion for personal fitness always led him to be in the best physical shape himself to inspire others to achieve their physical goals.

Ed is predeceased by his beloved parents, Ed Huse Sr. who died in 2012, and his mother Betty Huse (nee Chirila) who died in 2013.

Ed leaves behind his beloved, Barbie Mayock, whom he had lived with for over twenty years. Barbie and Ed spent many happy years living in the golden hills of New Almaden, California. Ed also loved and was beloved by Barbie’s children, Logan Mayock and Aisha Santiago-Rodriguez, and Barbie’s two granddaughters, Anaïs and Arabella.

He also leaves behind Alison Huse Farhner and Lyn Huse Alberts, his two sisters who loved him very much. Both sisters are residents of California. Ed also leaves behind his two brothers-in-law, Larry Farhner and Dick Alberts. Eddie loved his cherished niece and nephew, Danielle Tomason Davis, and Warren Tomason and their families, and spouses, John Davis and Tonia Gomes Tomason. Ed was beloved by his grandnieces and nephews, and he loved them very much. They include: nieces Kehaulani and Ariah Tomason, niece Kenley Davis, and nephew Harper Davis; all residents of California.

He also leaves behind many beloved cousins, including his closest cousin Bill Taylor, and Rozalyn and Lindsay Taylor, now in Arizona. Lisa, LeeAnn, and Leslie Tiller of Missouri, and Angela Meyers and Zachary Meyers of N.C. He also remained in touch with his Uncle Dick Tiller of St. Joseph, Missouri, and his Aunt Virginia Stone of North Carolina. Ed also had remained in close touch with his cousin Tiny Ron Taylor, who was from Southern California, until his passing in 2019. Ed is also predeceased by his cousin Chris Huse, who passed in 2014. He also considered both Ron and Chris’ wives, Angelika Taylor, now of Arizona, and Candy Earls of Washington to be dear in his life. There were several other extended family members with whom he remained in touch, along with lifelong friends. 

Ed graduated from Branham High School in San Jose, California in 1982, and attended San Jose State, between the years of 1982 to 1986, where he played football as a Spartan, and studied communication. He loved to make up, and tell fun and funny stories and songs, and to write. He loved music, especially Rock & Roll, including heavy metal.

He delved deeply to become a star athlete, winding his way down a path of baseball, basketball and football, playing basketball for a time with the back-up team for Golden State Warriors. In the late 1980s and early nineties, Ed was playing basketball professionally with a U.S. International team that traveled to places in Portugal, Spain, and Western Africa.

He spent some time with his cousin Ron (Tiny) Taylor in Southern California and pondered acting as a career for a brief time. He also did some modeling and had photos done for different agencies locally in Northern California.

He continued to do sports coaching basketball at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA and attended classes there. He also began doing landscaping and odd jobs by the late nineties into the new millennium, including being a caterer for many years with a high-quality catering company of Saratoga, California.

Eddie had always been an entrepreneur at heart, starting his own businesses. Those included being a physical trainer and running his landscaping business. In the Almaden hills where he lived, he became an onsite groundskeeper for a time for Jim and Colleen Green, whom he grew to think of as second parents. He had taken up residence on the Green’s property in the cherished home that he would adore and share with Barbie for the next twelve years.

Life takes turns on roads long and short. So after his parents passing, and the selling of the family home in South San Jose in 2014, Ed’s heart began giving way in 2016. At which time, he sustained open-heart surgery for a mitral valve repair. While Ed was a great believer in rehab for external injuries, he was not a big fan of internal medicine nor its purveyors, but in the long run he thanked the Stanford surgeons and the cardiologist who had caught his need at Valley Medical Center for having done their jobs well for him.

Rehab took time, but Ed’s determination, ever-present loving soul and good nature kept him going. Even through the roughness of life’s circumstances, his physical strength increased to a great degree by 2019. Ed’s love for the Pacific ocean and coast was unparalleled to anything else. The beach was where he felt his best. That passion allowed him to return often to his beloved Pacific Ocean locations around the Santa Cruz and Monterey coasts. Given the choice or chance, he’d be swimming in the ocean or sitting on the beach watching the sunset. Many were the wonderful childhood memories of the ocean with family and friends, taking on waves and absorbing the energy from the sun.

Then came the pandemic and lockdown, and, while Ed continued to go to the ocean when possible, and began attending major league baseball games for both the Oakland A’s and the SF Giants when games had resumed, it was too much for him to resume a life of landscaping and lawn maintenance although he continued to hope he would.

Things took a turn that brought further stress for Ed by the summer of 2022, even while his determination, positivity and good nature remained strong, and he spent a good amount of time over recent months by the ocean, along with visiting family, traveling some, and continuing to work out, when his heart finally said “enough,” and “you can rest now.”

We will miss you, Eddie. Your smile and laughter are always in our hearts.

Written by Alison Huse Farhner, with additions from Lyn Alberts, Barbie Mayock, Danielle Davis, and Larry Farhner.

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