Obituary for Edmund Cameron
On Wednesday, April 14, 2021, Edmund S. Cameron, loving husband and father of four children, passed away at the age of 90.
Edmund was born on the farm he grew up on near Gibson City, Illinois on June 5, 1930. While growing up he attained the rank of Eagle Scout in the Prairielands Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and was honored by being named salutatorian of his high school graduating class. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Science degree from Purdue University. On June 9, 1960 he married Delores Anne Suter, a marriage that lasted for over 60 years. After serving as an artillery officer in the U.S. Army and teaching at the University of Illinois, he taught for 25 years at Lake-Sumter Community College in Leesburg, Florida. Ed and Delores raised four children in Leesburg; Daniel, Stephen, Douglas, and Melissa. In his forties and fifties Ed was a competitive road runner at 5K and 10K races throughout central Florida.
Edmund spent the last 25 years of his life happily retired with Delores near Franklin, North Carolina. Edmund was an outdoorsman, a horticulturist, a birder, and an avid collector of early American pressed glass. If you see a bluebird house in Macon County, North Carolina it was likely placed there by Ed, as he put up and maintained hundreds of bluebird houses over the course of over two decades. He was a life-long student of both Latin and calculus. He is remembered fondly in his community for his longstanding support to the Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church food bank, as well as generous support to numerous other Catholic charities and wildlife conservation organizations.
Edmund was preceded in death by his father Edmund, and his mother Kathryn. He is survived by his wife, Delores, all four of their children, his children-in-law Dorian, Joy, and Guy, and his grandchildren Andrew, Travis, Edmund, Matthew, Ava, Wallace, and Gwyneth.
A funeral Mass was held for Edmund at the chapel of Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church on April, 19, 2021
Edmund was born on the farm he grew up on near Gibson City, Illinois on June 5, 1930. While growing up he attained the rank of Eagle Scout in the Prairielands Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and was honored by being named salutatorian of his high school graduating class. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Science degree from Purdue University. On June 9, 1960 he married Delores Anne Suter, a marriage that lasted for over 60 years. After serving as an artillery officer in the U.S. Army and teaching at the University of Illinois, he taught for 25 years at Lake-Sumter Community College in Leesburg, Florida. Ed and Delores raised four children in Leesburg; Daniel, Stephen, Douglas, and Melissa. In his forties and fifties Ed was a competitive road runner at 5K and 10K races throughout central Florida.
Edmund spent the last 25 years of his life happily retired with Delores near Franklin, North Carolina. Edmund was an outdoorsman, a horticulturist, a birder, and an avid collector of early American pressed glass. If you see a bluebird house in Macon County, North Carolina it was likely placed there by Ed, as he put up and maintained hundreds of bluebird houses over the course of over two decades. He was a life-long student of both Latin and calculus. He is remembered fondly in his community for his longstanding support to the Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church food bank, as well as generous support to numerous other Catholic charities and wildlife conservation organizations.
Edmund was preceded in death by his father Edmund, and his mother Kathryn. He is survived by his wife, Delores, all four of their children, his children-in-law Dorian, Joy, and Guy, and his grandchildren Andrew, Travis, Edmund, Matthew, Ava, Wallace, and Gwyneth.
A funeral Mass was held for Edmund at the chapel of Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church on April, 19, 2021