from: MyValleyTributes staff
Posted: 07/29/2021 / 7:34 PM EDT
Updated: 7/29/2021 / 7:34 PM EDT
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (MyValleyTributes) – Edgar N. Reed (“Eddy”) passed away at home on Saturday, July 24, 2021 in the presence of his 46-year-old wife, Peggy, former Margaret Gorman, and a few loving family members and close neighbors.
Eddy was born at home in Miola, Pennsylvania on October 11, 1947, to Kathryn Marie McCleary and Howard Samuel Reed, the youngest of six children.
His father was killed in a car accident when he was three years old. Eventually his mother met a wonderful man, Jack Beck from Youngstown, and they married and had two more children.
In 1960 the family moved to East High Avenue. Later, his mother and Jack returned to settle in Clarion, Pennsylvania, while Ed and brother Tom Reed stayed in Youngstown.
He graduated from East High School and attended Youngstown Business College for a year.
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After his first job at Benada Aluminum, he worked as a draftsman for Wean united until they sold most of the company to an Italian company, after which he worked at JB Industries until his retirement.
He was an avid softball player in his 20s to 40s, which earned him the nickname “Steady Eddy”. At the same time, and until he fell ill, he loved bowling, for playing and hanging out with the boys. Amron, Holiday and Wedgewood Lanes were his second home. Ed was the proud winner of several 300 games and an 800 series.
Because he was from Pennsylvania, he was a lifelong fan of all of the Pittsburgh teams, and also loved the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Ed was preceded in death by his mother, biological father, and Jack Beck, who raised him at the age of three. In death he was preceded by his three brothers Joseph, Thomas and Stephen and his sister-in-law Monica.
He goes to his wife, Peggy, to keep his memory; his daughter Courtney (Tom) Connelly; his son Patrick John (Andrea) Reed; his granddaughter Angelina Marie and Ava Rose Connelly and Adalynn Kennedy Reed; his sisters Martha (Dan) White, Linda (Dave) Burnham and Kathy (Rod) Wells and his brother Dick (Cindy) Beck. He was “overjoyed” when it came to his two children and three granddaughters, two large dogs, Maggie and Pepper and Marley, the bearded dragon, and Lyla Bell, the cat. Mention should be made of his and Peg’s “adoptive grandchildren” Allie and Joey Skopic as well as Lexi Kinney, who loved “Papa Reed”. Also many nieces and nephews, sisters and brothers-in-law.
A memorial mass for the Christian burial will be held on Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Joseph Church in Austintown.
The agreements are made by the Lane Austintown Chapel
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