That's him in the high chair in the above photo taken on his first birthday on March 10, 1962. As you can see, his three siblings are too preoccupied with eating cake to even look up for the photo.
Here are two more photos from that same birthday, showing the ceremonial arrival of his birthday cake (no doubt a Sam Houston cake – Dad's favorite).
What was going on in the news on the day he was born? Here's the front page of the Journal for March 10, 1961.
Ed has the honor of being named after our Dad. But he could have easily been named Louie.
You see, Mom's father's name was Louis, and he had hoped that she would name a boy after him (perhaps because he had always wanted a son and ended up with two girls instead). But Mom evaded naming my older brother Ken and me after him, going with popular names of that time period instead. So when Ed was born, Grandpa's hopes were high that this one would finally be named after him. But he had to settle for 'Louis' being Ed's middle name. (By the way, both my older brother and I have our father's name as our middle one.)
Ed is what people sometimes call the "oops" baby - the one that was a little unexpected. He was also in a bit of a hurry to get here and join us, arriving a little early. (I still remember Mom 'not being around' when she was in the hospital having him.)
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| March 11, 1961 Journal |
He ended up staying in the hospital almost a month after he was born.
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| March 15, 1961 |
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| April 10, 1961 |
Thank God everything worked out, as I can't imagine what our family would have been like without him.
Happy Birthday, Ed! For Here's wishing you many more, bro!
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