Health and Welfare
Morris Radio Club Remembers
Edgar Mott Weed - K2BO
MORRIS TWP. — Edgar Mott Weed died of heart failure Thursday. He was 94.
Born in Morristown in 1907, he was the son of Mary E. and Joseph H. Weed and, at Joseph’s death, the stepson of Judge Edward Quayle.
He graduated from Morristown High School in 1925 and received training in electronics at Rutgers.
After two years of work on Wall Street, he joined The Jerseyman, the oldest newspaper in Morristown. From 1933 to 1942, he was advertising manager of the Daily Record in Morristown. During the war, he tested radio receivers and transmitters at Aircraft Radio Corp. in Boonton. After a position as advertising manager and technical writer for Measurement Corp. in Boonton, he joined Bell Laboratories in Whippany as a associate member of the technical staff, where he did technical writing and development of audio-visual equipment for military instruction material.
An amateur radio operator since 1922, he was a founding member of the Morris Radio Club, established in 1949. He was a former trustee of Historic Speedwell Village, a member and president of the Mount Kemble Home Board of Managers, a member of the Morris Township Board of Education and a volunteer firefighter with the Morristown Fire Department.
He leaves his wife of 72 years, Marguerite; a daughter, Elizabeth; a stepsister, Clara Quayle; his two grandchildren; and his three great-grandchildren. His son, Edgar, died in 1966.
Visiting hours will be 2-4 p.m Sunday at the Dangler Funeral Home, 600 Speedwell Ave., Morris Plains. The funeral will be held at the funeral home on Monday at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, please send contributions to the Morris Minutemen of the Morris Fire Department.
- Daily Record - February 22, 2002 -
