Edward T. "Eddie" Moran (1859-1940)

MORAN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 12/18/2013 at 16:05:34

From Nevada Evening Journal November 13, 1940

Eddie Moran Died Here Today; Funeral Thursday

Funeral services for Edward Moran, 81, who died at Iowa sanitarium at 12:30 a.m. today, will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Morfoot's Funeral home and burial will be in the Nevada cemetery.

"Eddie" Moran, a resident of Nevada for over 40 years, was born in New Jersey, January 12, 1859, was raised in the east, worked in produce houses in New York, Boston, Indianapolis, Chicago, Kansas City, Burlington and other cities, before coming to Nevada and becoming a permanent fixture in the Nevada Poultry company back in the days of John Riddlesbarger, A. F. Winter and Charles Harris.

He has been with the company continuously since for many years as an expert in dressing and packing ducks for market.

he was proud of the fact that "Nevada Ducks" were featured on the menus by the chefs of many of the larger hotels and restaurants of New York and other large cities.

He continued his work with the company as long as he was able but finally retired on a comfortable pension and continued to make his home here.

He had never married and his parents and two brothers are all dead. He kept in touch with friends in the east through frequent trips back with poultry until about a score of years ago when those visits ceased.

Reserved and quiet, he was a man of peculiar characteristics in many ways, but had many warm personal friends among those with whom he had been associated during his long residence in Nevada, especially among his employers and those with whom he had worked.

He had an inborn interest in baseball and there was no man in the community who followed the teams and the various players with a keener interest.

In the death of Eddie Moran many Nevada people are losing a good friend and one that will long be remembered.

He had made his home for the past several years at the W. A. Fudge rooming house on Fifth street and her most kindly words were spoken in his memory today.

He died alone so far as family or relatives were concerned, but not without friends.