Ed was a good brother 12 years older than I.   Loving memories include:

• His taking me on motorcycle rides with me sitting astride the gas tank.

• His taking pictures of me with Dad’s 3x5 in. Kodak camera. [I cherish those photos.]

• His taking me on wheelbarrow rides at 700 W.

• His taking me on shoulder rides while he ran around the back yard.

• His teaching me boxing.

• His urging me not to be satisfied with some school grades of B.

• His song Chiaroscuro.

• The 24-in bicycle that he built for me when I was nine. It had white handle grips with tassels, a new handle bar, an oogah horn, and a new, auto-quality, mint-green paint job.

• His bike racing around the basement “track” at 700 W. Woodbine.

• His giving me a Plymouth engine block to take apart and put back together when I was 12.

• His mini-organ invention that used a blower to power an accordion.

• His playing classical piano-violin duets with Dad on the violin.

• His ability to change piano styles from classical to folk to jazz to popular and change keys at will.

• His caged, rotating-wing-lift concept and the prototype test he performed.

• His loaning me his Bell and Howell movie camera.

• His letting me use his twin lens reflex camera.

• His and Anne’s letting me drive His Studebaker.

• His and Anne’s instructions on how to be a good (sensitive) lover.

• His design of speaker enclosures.

• His taking me shooting with his Colt .38.

• His musical Tom Sawyer that he wrote, composed, and directed in Kirkwood MO and New Orleans LA.

• His interjecting multiple fake climaxes in piano pieces until I laughed tears.

• His great singing voice and engaging inter-song patter.

• His being a loving caretaker for Mom in her last years.

• His always making me feel loved and welcome when I came to visit.

• His suggesting that Anne go with me to a fraternity party. [She taught me jitterbug that night.]

• His inventing the E-1 Triphibian aircraft that uses ground effect for short takeoff and landing.

• His keen insight into national and international politics such as His Win-Over-Terror plan.

• His concern for mankind as expressed by conceiving the Ecumenical Church of Allpersons on 9-11-2001.

• His contagious enthusiasm for life.