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through several generations of Erieites.  I didn't know Ann very well in the early days but after we became next door neighbors I go to know her quite well.  We'd get with Ann and Ed to play bridge and have cookouts.  Ed loved to broil steaks on a fancy vertical grill he had.  Also there would be some drinking. Ann was quite a gardener and spent considerable time at that.  She was also a gossip who had to know everything that was going on and spent much time on the telephone calling a long list of sources on a regular basis.  She talked a good deal and often in candid photos her mouth is open.  She was a great shopper and her house was full of baubles and doodads.  She had a vast array of clothes, much of them on the fancy side.  She attended all possible events like weddings, funerals, receptions, club meetings, church events, and so on and always conversed with every person there with whom she had the slightest acquaintance at all, all this being supplementary to running her telephone trap lines daily.  Ann and Ed had a daughter, Jane, and a son, Doug.  Doug served in the Army of Occupation in Germany in a lowly rank, possibly not even a non-com; for Doug proved to be very low pressure.  Back in Erie, he had several jobs in banking and insurance, was completely out of work for a year or so (with a wife and four boys), and now has an office job with one of the Erie cemeteries.  Doug is a nice boy but without push.  Jane was a tall, big-boned, handsome girl and a very nice one to know.  She went to the girls' part of Brown University, Doug having gone to Grove City College.  Jane looked like a girl who'd made a fine wife for someone but she didn't seem to catch on with the boys for some reason that wasn't apparent to me.  She went into the Junior League in Erie and was active around town.  We were fond of her.  After the Brightmans and the Wileys left Erie in the mid-50's, we probably saw somewhat more of Ed and Ann and we entertained them on numerous occasions on our boat.  They appear frequently in pictures in my Boating opus, a particularly good display being on pp.215-217.  But Ed was not long for this world at the time the latter shots were taken.  He had an aneurism and suffered a fatal heart attack in May 1962.  I served as a pallbearer at his funeral.  I'd never done this before and didn't realize how heavy a job it is until it was too late and I had to go through with it whether or no.  I was desperately afraid that I'd bust open one of my hernias but there were no repercussions.  I retired July 1, 1962, just a short time after Ed died.  For years he'd wanted to own a Cadillac but hadn't felt he should indulge until he got his estate in good enough shape to take care of his retirement.  Finally in 1962 he felt the time had at last come.  The day he died, he went down to Roth's in the morning and picked up his brand new Cadillac and drove it home.  That evening he was dead.  Ann kept the Cadillac and drove it for many years.  Ann and Jane stayed on in the big house for about two years and then Ann sold it to the Colvins.  He was a professor