swovelin 11 #1 Posted May 1, 2023 Damn, fate can be so cruel; Ed White has left us. Apparently, Mimi found him last night (Sunday May 30), after a heart attack or ...? Ed, Ed, Ed, how can you expect us to just carry on? You were always the heart of the party, the light of the group, you infectiously enlivened everyone who was near to you, with your effervescent love for life. It was a pleasure to have you in my life, thank you. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,439 #2 May 1, 2023 Aw no!! That sucks. We had such fun jumping with him and Mimi in Costa Rica last year. Such a perfect attitude toward the sport Wendy P. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riggerrob 643 #3 May 2, 2023 Is that the same Ed White who used to work at Perris circa 2000? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dudeman17 335 #4 May 3, 2023 Oh, geez, this hurts. From the earliest days when he was just a gangly kid, too young to jump, running around Perris because his mom Lou worked at the school... Such a unique light, unique soul, always so much fun to be around. Ed was actually where I got this stupid user name from. Back in the day he used to call me dudeman, hell he used to call a lot of people dudeman, but when I got my D license and he noted that the last two digits of it were the same as my base number... That made me laugh and it stuck in my head, I ended up making an email out of it and using it here. The world's a bit darker... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riggermick 7 #5 May 5, 2023 On 5/1/2023 at 4:06 PM, swovelin said: Damn, fate can be so cruel; Ed White has left us. Apparently, Mimi found him last night (Sunday May 30), after a heart attack or ...? Ed, Ed, Ed, how can you expect us to just carry on? You were always the heart of the party, the light of the group, you infectiously enlivened everyone who was near to you, with your effervescent love for life. It was a pleasure to have you in my life, thank you. Oh my God this is terrible, two friends in as many months. Blue Sky's Ed. Boy did we have fun in the 80s. You should have been last on the list. Great picture of you and a deer in Yosemite back in the day hanging in the bomb shelter. Fly free my friend. Mick. PS: Yes Rob it is the same Ed from Perris back in the day. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kleggo 145 #6 May 17, 2023 Mick, I was just looking at that photo last month. The "goofy smile" on Ed's face is heartwarming. I still remember fun times @ Perris 81 / 82. Specially when Ed docked me, wrapped his legs around me, licked my goggles so I couldn't see, but he was the one that ended up kicking out so we could save ourselves. We probably had ~ 60 total jumps combined at that point. BSBD. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riggermick 7 #7 May 19, 2023 On 5/17/2023 at 3:41 PM, kleggo said: Mick, I was just looking at that photo last month. The "goofy smile" on Ed's face is heartwarming. I still remember fun times @ Perris 81 / 82. Specially when Ed docked me, wrapped his legs around me, licked my goggles so I couldn't see, but he was the one that ended up kicking out so we could save ourselves. We probably had ~ 60 total jumps combined at that point. BSBD. We used to manifest him as Greg Reynolds (grim reapor) from the local Perris film at that time to get him on any week day load, but Lou (his mom) the manifester knew it was Ed, she always looked the other way. He was 16 when we first met . I was 6 years his older but we were both kids and boy did we have fun. Boy did we do some crazy shit back then together. Every stupid dumb shit crazy thing you could think of, we did it. To soon my friend. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
