Edmund Mills biography, continued.

Ed's 70th birthday pary.

1982  George and Helen Gillespie, Ed, Lu

1982                                                                With the Gillespies and Vinyard's.

At home in Huntington Beach, 1982.

We  purchased a mobile home at 9850 Garfield Ave in Huntington Beach. One March 1st, 1983 the dike of the flood control channel near the house broke. The house was flooded with about three feet of muddy water. Many family photographs were destroyed or damaged.

Mike's graduation from the doctoral program at UC Santa Barbara.   After graduation, he taught for a year at UC Ivine.  Since 1984 he has been a professor at the Psychology Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

1983  With George and Helen Gillespie

1983  Taking a cruise on the SS Independence

Until later in life, the overall thing that affected my life was money.   I would have liked to have done a lot of things I couldn't afford to do.  Live in different places, have better cars, better clothes.  It was always a question of penny-pinching, and, of course, that goes back to after my father died.  Nothing was ever extra -- that was always true until I got into the better salary ranges later in life.   Money was always a factor in what I did and where I went.  I always had to stop and think about whether there would be enough money to do it or not.    I've always lived on a salary, and for most of my life, I lived from one paycheck to another.  With more money, I would have had more choices about where and when to work.   I did, however, live in one of the best eras in America -- everything was always getting better, expanding.

1983.  With Helen and George Gillespie

1984   Serving ad volunteers for the 1984 Olympics, for the Olympic sailboat races in Long Beach

1984  Hot Air Balloon Festival, New Mexico.  With the Vinyards.             

Hawaii, circa 1984

1985  Cruising again.

With friends Mel and Ruth Vinyard in New Mexico, 1985

1985, at Lauglin, NV.  Erin,  Ed, Mike.

1986.  Cruising again.

1986 Ed, Mike, Lu's mother Lucy, Lu, Chuck, Erin.

1986,  Morro Bay                                                                                              Ed, George Gillespie

On June 6, 1986 we helped Helen and George Gillespie celebrate
their 50th wedding anniversary at Mae's Tea Room.

1987

1987, with George and Hellen Gillespie.   At right, at Mike and Erin's house in Westminster, CA.

One of the aspects of my personality that I learned growing up is to avoid exciting
situations because it would produce an asthma attack.  So I'm rather reserved and
not prone to show excitement because of that.

1989,  at Mike and Erin's house in Westchester, CA

Sailing at Morro Bay, 1989.  Ken,Ed, Chuck, Mike.

Location of Jean and Chuck's house in Morro Bay, 660 Santa Ysabel, Los Osos, CA.

1989  With Jean and Chuck.  Near Morro Bay.

Jean, Chuck, Lu, Ed.  Birthday party for Lu at Mike & Erin's house in Westchester (Los Angeles). Circa 1990.

Circa 1991 Ed, Erin, Chuck and Jean Wilson, Mike.   Huntington Beach Pier.

ed and Lu's house in a retirement community in Vista, CA  (north of San Diego, CA).

Oceanside pier.
 

1991.  40th wedding anniversary.

1991, Vista, CA.  Erin, Ed, Lu, and Mike.

1992. Lu,Ed, and their friend LuAnn Gonzales.   

1993.  Vista, CA                                            1994.  Birthday bi-plane ride.  Vista, CA

1996

July, 1997 in Vista.  Lu, Ed, Chuck, Nancy, Jean.

Lu, September 10, 1997.

Lu, Ed's wife of 47 years, passed away at home due to lung cancer on September 17, 1997.  

Ed moved in with his son Mike at 6101 Mahogany Ave, Westminster, CA.  1998.

ed and Mike bought a house in Goleta (near Santa Barbara), CA.   They moved there in September, 1998.

Visiting his sister and family at Morro Bay.  From right to left: Mike,Ed, Ed's sister Jean, her husband Chuck, and their son, Ken. August, 1999.  It was during this visit that Jean and Mike searched  through Emma's old photos album and records.

Below, postcard written to friend Ruth Vineyard, March 3, 2000.   On the front of the card was a photo of a broken fence gate.

June, 2001.   Walking the dogs on path to beach near home.

Ed's brother-in-law, Chuck,  Ed's sister Jean, Jean's daughter Nancy, Nancy's husband, Art,Ed, and Ed's son, Mike. 
Goleta Beach pier, June 3, 2001.

4th of July, Santa Barbara Courthouse lawn concert, 2001. Santa Barbara Symphony Patriotic Concert.

Ed in the Veterans of WWII Roll Call Honor seating area.    

Ed's 90th birthday party (angle 1).   August, 2001.  Goleta Beach Cafe.    Left to right, going around , Rose, Krystine,
Erin, Dee, LuAnn,Ed, Chuck, Jean, Ken, Gail.

Ed's 90th birthday party (angle 2)

Mike, Ed, Ken.  March 16, 2003.

Ed and his sister Jean, March 16, 2003.

April 7, 2003.  Talking a snooze in the sun in the backyard.

April 4, 2004.  Visiting with Chuck and Jean Wilson at their home at the Las Brisas Retirement Community,
San Luis Obispo.

After the memorial service for Ed's sister, Jean.  At the Inn at Morro Bay.

Below, Ed's sister Jean's brief autobiography.

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Ed with his three day old grand daughter Emily Zoey Mills, being held by Nancy Korneck
(nee Wilson  -- Ed's sister's daughter).
July 9th, 2005.

Ed with friends from Argonaut Insurance, John Eagle and Earl Laffoon.  
Goleta Beach pier.  August, 2005.

Comment from Ed's friend, Lou Ann (via email):

Ed does remember them. They have been up to see him in
the past couple of months. John worked with Ed at Argonaut and
Dave goes back to the Mission days. The third is Earl,
who was a subrosa investigator,  and as couples, Earl & Bobbie,
Don and I and Ed and LuLu got together all the time and went
to Hawaii together a couple of times.

 

With Rose, grand-daughter Emily, Chuck, Gail and Ken.

Ed's Birthday party, August 2005.  Ed, Erin, Jessie, LouAnn, Emily, Krystine, and Rose.

September, 2005.  Ed and his granddaugher, Emily.
 

November, 2005.  Sitting on the front porch.
 

April, 2006.   With grand daughter Emily and friend LouAnn.
 

Ed's birthday celebration, August, 2006.

November, 2006.   After falling and breaking his hip, Ed moved to the
Buena Vista Care Center in Goleta, CA.
 

December, 2006.  With Chuck, Nancy, and Art.  At Goleta Beach.

January, 2007.  With old friend and colleague, John Eagle.
 

May, 2007

A carving made by Ed's brother Chilie, and a couple of Ed's sailing trophies.

"In appreciation.  Presented to Edmund O. Mills.
CBYC Commodore, 1956."
From the Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club, Los Angeles Harbor.

Ed's birthday party, August 2007.

Emily, Ed's granddaughter.

February, 2008

May, 2008

August, 2008, at the Buena Vista Care Center, Santa Barbara.
 

Goleta Beach park.

January, 2009.

March, 2009.

April, 2010   With grand daughter Emily.
 

August 28, 2010.   Birthday celebration (belated) with old friends from his long career
in the insurance biz, Dave Evans and Earl Lafoon.   At the Goleta Beachside Bar and Cafe.
 

February, 2011.   Beachside Bar & Cafe, Goleta
 

Grandfather and granddaughter share a cupcake today at a
celebration for soon to be centenarians.  At the Buena Vista Care
Center,  February 28, 2011.

Story about Ed that ran in the Santa Barbara News Press newspaper, 7/31/2011:

The entire article is here.

In celebration of Ed's 100th birthday:

  

Ed's 100th Birthday Celebration, August, 2011. 
 

Ed passed away peacefully in his sleep in the afternoon of February 17, 2012 at
Buena Vista Care Center in Santa Barbara, CA.  His son and grand-daughter had
visited him shortly before.

Also: a biographical slideshow,  a video interview with Ed about his life (recorded
in 1993), and his genealogy.

Link to website of Ed's wife, Lu.   Also, a brief biography of Ed's sister, Jean Wilson (nee Mills).

Contact:  Michael Mills  memills@gmail.com