Charlie and Terese's second son Edmund Charles was born on May 9, 1917 and was named after his uncle and godfather, Ed Horten. Ed grew up with his family at 817 Belgian Avenue and attended St. James High School.
As a teenager Edmund delivered newspapers for the Baltimore News Post. After high school he went to work keeping insurance records for the Maryland Casualty Company. He also worked at a drugstore and a few other odd jobs. In 1941, Ed was drafted into the U. S. Army during World War II. He was trained by the Army Air Corp at various bases in Palm Beach, Florida, Amarillo, Texas, Savannah, Georgia, and Greenville, South Carolina where he was learned to be an engineer on B-17 bomber planes. It was in Greenville that his met his Southern sweetheart from Georgia named Nellie Mae Bailey. Then the military sent Ed to the China/Burma/India region where he set the instruments for autopilot on the B-24 bombers and supply planes that flew into China from Bombay. When he returned home in 1945 he first worked as a driver delivering candy for his Uncle Ed's business. After a long distance courtship Nell and Ed were engaged. Nell was not a Roman Catholic and very much a Southern lady. Despite pleas from his Uncle Ed (who was very active in the parish), the younger Ed married Nell at a ceremony held in the rectory of Blessed Sacrament rather than in the church on March 5, 1946. This was the custom of the time due to the Catholic Church's frowning on interfaith marriages. Nell later converted to Catholicism. Nell moved to Maryland to start their life together. Ed also had begun his career with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad as a telegraph machine operator. He worked in the control room of the switching towers down at the Mount Royal Station and at the Bayview railroad yard in South Baltimore.
Ed and Nell began their married life in a small apartment at Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City where their first child, Beverly Jean was born in 1949. When their second child Patricia was due in 1951, Ed and Nell purchased a home at 3111 Parktowne Road, Baltimore County (Ed's sister Maria and his cousin Billy served as Pat's godparents in 1951.) Here they raised their daughters.
Ed retired from the railroad in 1977 after 32 years. He had always attended Mass at the St. Ursula Church in Parkville and was very active in the Bishop Sebastian Council #5058 of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic's men's fraternal organization. When he resigned in 1989, Ed had been a Past Grand Knight, and had served the council for over 28 years; 19 of those years as the Financial Secretary. He had continued to work as the Director of the Parkville Senior Center providing meals to his senior citizen neighbors. Nell worked at his side as a volunteer. Ed died of a heartattack on February 3, 1994 at the age of 76 and was buried in the Parkwood Cemetery in Parkville.
As a teenager Edmund delivered newspapers for the Baltimore News Post. After high school he went to work keeping insurance records for the Maryland Casualty Company. He also worked at a drugstore and a few other odd jobs. In 1941, Ed was drafted into the U. S. Army during World War II. He was trained by the Army Air Corp at various bases in Palm Beach, Florida, Amarillo, Texas, Savannah, Georgia, and Greenville, South Carolina where he was learned to be an engineer on B-17 bomber planes. It was in Greenville that his met his Southern sweetheart from Georgia named Nellie Mae Bailey. Then the military sent Ed to the China/Burma/India region where he set the instruments for autopilot on the B-24 bombers and supply planes that flew into China from Bombay. When he returned home in 1945 he first worked as a driver delivering candy for his Uncle Ed's business. After a long distance courtship Nell and Ed were engaged. Nell was not a Roman Catholic and very much a Southern lady. Despite pleas from his Uncle Ed (who was very active in the parish), the younger Ed married Nell at a ceremony held in the rectory of Blessed Sacrament rather than in the church on March 5, 1946. This was the custom of the time due to the Catholic Church's frowning on interfaith marriages. Nell later converted to Catholicism. Nell moved to Maryland to start their life together. Ed also had begun his career with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad as a telegraph machine operator. He worked in the control room of the switching towers down at the Mount Royal Station and at the Bayview railroad yard in South Baltimore.
Ed and Nell began their married life in a small apartment at Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City where their first child, Beverly Jean was born in 1949. When their second child Patricia was due in 1951, Ed and Nell purchased a home at 3111 Parktowne Road, Baltimore County (Ed's sister Maria and his cousin Billy served as Pat's godparents in 1951.) Here they raised their daughters.
Ed retired from the railroad in 1977 after 32 years. He had always attended Mass at the St. Ursula Church in Parkville and was very active in the Bishop Sebastian Council #5058 of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic's men's fraternal organization. When he resigned in 1989, Ed had been a Past Grand Knight, and had served the council for over 28 years; 19 of those years as the Financial Secretary. He had continued to work as the Director of the Parkville Senior Center providing meals to his senior citizen neighbors. Nell worked at his side as a volunteer. Ed died of a heartattack on February 3, 1994 at the age of 76 and was buried in the Parkwood Cemetery in Parkville.
Charlie and Terese's second son Edmund Charles was born on May 9, 1917 and was named after his uncle and godfather, Ed Horten. Ed grew up with his family at 817 Belgian Avenue and attended St. James High School.
As a teenager Edmund delivered newspapers for the Baltimore News Post. After high school he went to work keeping insurance records for the Maryland Casualty Company. He also worked at a drugstore and a few other odd jobs. In 1941, Ed was drafted into the U. S. Army during World War II. He was trained by the Army Air Corp at various bases in Palm Beach, Florida, Amarillo, Texas, Savannah, Georgia, and Greenville, South Carolina where he was learned to be an engineer on B-17 bomber planes. It was in Greenville that his met his Southern sweetheart from Georgia named Nellie Mae Bailey. Then the military sent Ed to the China/Burma/India region where he set the instruments for autopilot on the B-24 bombers and supply planes that flew into China from Bombay. When he returned home in 1945 he first worked as a driver delivering candy for his Uncle Ed's business. After a long distance courtship Nell and Ed were engaged. Nell was not a Roman Catholic and very much a Southern lady. Despite pleas from his Uncle Ed (who was very active in the parish), the younger Ed married Nell at a ceremony held in the rectory of Blessed Sacrament rather than in the church on March 5, 1946. This was the custom of the time due to the Catholic Church's frowning on interfaith marriages. Nell later converted to Catholicism. Nell moved to Maryland to start their life together. Ed also had begun his career with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad as a telegraph machine operator. He worked in the control room of the switching towers down at the Mount Royal Station and at the Bayview railroad yard in South Baltimore.
Ed and Nell began their married life in a small apartment at Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City where their first child, Beverly Jean was born in 1949. When their second child Patricia was due in 1951, Ed and Nell purchased a home at 3111 Parktowne Road, Baltimore County (Ed's sister Maria and his cousin Billy served as Pat's godparents in 1951.) Here they raised their daughters.
Ed retired from the railroad in 1977 after 32 years. He had always attended Mass at the St. Ursula Church in Parkville and was very active in the Bishop Sebastian Council #5058 of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic's men's fraternal organization. When he resigned in 1989, Ed had been a Past Grand Knight, and had served the council for over 28 years; 19 of those years as the Financial Secretary. He had continued to work as the Director of the Parkville Senior Center providing meals to his senior citizen neighbors. Nell worked at his side as a volunteer. Ed died of a heartattack on February 3, 1994 at the age of 76 and was buried in the Parkwood Cemetery in Parkville.
As a teenager Edmund delivered newspapers for the Baltimore News Post. After high school he went to work keeping insurance records for the Maryland Casualty Company. He also worked at a drugstore and a few other odd jobs. In 1941, Ed was drafted into the U. S. Army during World War II. He was trained by the Army Air Corp at various bases in Palm Beach, Florida, Amarillo, Texas, Savannah, Georgia, and Greenville, South Carolina where he was learned to be an engineer on B-17 bomber planes. It was in Greenville that his met his Southern sweetheart from Georgia named Nellie Mae Bailey. Then the military sent Ed to the China/Burma/India region where he set the instruments for autopilot on the B-24 bombers and supply planes that flew into China from Bombay. When he returned home in 1945 he first worked as a driver delivering candy for his Uncle Ed's business. After a long distance courtship Nell and Ed were engaged. Nell was not a Roman Catholic and very much a Southern lady. Despite pleas from his Uncle Ed (who was very active in the parish), the younger Ed married Nell at a ceremony held in the rectory of Blessed Sacrament rather than in the church on March 5, 1946. This was the custom of the time due to the Catholic Church's frowning on interfaith marriages. Nell later converted to Catholicism. Nell moved to Maryland to start their life together. Ed also had begun his career with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad as a telegraph machine operator. He worked in the control room of the switching towers down at the Mount Royal Station and at the Bayview railroad yard in South Baltimore.
Ed and Nell began their married life in a small apartment at Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City where their first child, Beverly Jean was born in 1949. When their second child Patricia was due in 1951, Ed and Nell purchased a home at 3111 Parktowne Road, Baltimore County (Ed's sister Maria and his cousin Billy served as Pat's godparents in 1951.) Here they raised their daughters.
Ed retired from the railroad in 1977 after 32 years. He had always attended Mass at the St. Ursula Church in Parkville and was very active in the Bishop Sebastian Council #5058 of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic's men's fraternal organization. When he resigned in 1989, Ed had been a Past Grand Knight, and had served the council for over 28 years; 19 of those years as the Financial Secretary. He had continued to work as the Director of the Parkville Senior Center providing meals to his senior citizen neighbors. Nell worked at his side as a volunteer. Ed died of a heartattack on February 3, 1994 at the age of 76 and was buried in the Parkwood Cemetery in Parkville.
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