Edward K. Eberhart, ’60, 1933-2025
Edward Kingman Eberhart
Edward Kingman Eberhart, 91, of Wooster, passed away Friday, April 18, 2025 at West View Healthy Living. He was born October 19, 1933 in Pittsburg, PA the son of Prof. E. Kingman Eberhart and Lola Grace Eberhart. On June 4, 1953 he married Mary V. Munger, who survives.
Ed was adventurous. He was an Eagle Scout. He loved to travel. From a very early age he wanted to circumnavigate the globe and set foot on all seven continents. He accomplished both. He and Mary took many cruises and enjoyed traveling together, although he took the world cruise on his own. In 1952 he and three other young men traveled in a hearse named “Ava” from Wooster to Fairbanks, Alaska, via the gravel Al-Can Highway. They built four bunkbeds in the back and while one of them was driving, the other three could be sleeping. All four spent the summer working various jobs to earn money for college. Ed worked for a gold mine dredging operation. Fifty years later, on his own, he retraced their route on the paved Al-Can Highway. He rafted down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon eight times and sponsored children and grandchildren so they could also experience the sanctuary and beauty of the Canyon. Ed and Mary imparted a love of travel to their children. Every summer the family piled into the station wagon and traveled somewhere for two weeks. Many summers were spent in a cabin in New Hampshire on Lake Pemigewasset near Lake Winnipesaukee.
He was a 1951 graduate of Wooster High School, a 1955 graduate of The College of Wooster and received his JD degree in 1960 from the University of Chicago Law School. After graduation he moved back to Wooster and joined the Funk and Funk law firm, (later Funk, Funk and Eberhart). He served as Wooster City Solicitor for several years. In 1968 he was appointed judge of the Wooster Municipal Court, serving in that capacity for 7 years. He then joined the law firm of Kaufman, Eberhart, Cicconetti and Kennedy, retiring in 1996. He served two years in the US Army. He was stationed in Germany for part of that time and he and Mary were able to travel in Europe.
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