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John Edwards Obituary
June 30, 1947 - Apr 26, 2014
Resident of Saratoga
John Dale Edwards was born on June 30, 1947 in Crescent City, FL to Wilson and Katharine Edwards.
He graduated from the University of Florida in 1970 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Stanford in 1975 with a master's degree in Electrical Engineering.
He moved to CA in 1970 and worked for 39 years as an engineering manager at HP, ROLM Corp., Ericsson, Lucent, & Echelon.
John's greatest joy in life was his family, followed by genealogy, traveling, cruising, and sports.
He is survived by his loving wife of 42 years, Lynn; his children, Lorelle and Dale Edwards; brother, William (Joyce); brother-in-law, Del (Tammy); father & mother-in-law, Joseph & Thelma Baluta; nieces, Marni, Meaghan; nephew, Ryan; and many other relatives and friends.
A funeral mass will be held on Thurs, May 1 at 11am, with a visitation starting at 10am at Church of the Ascension 12033 Miller Ave., Saratoga.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations in his name to Hope Services MVDN, 30 Las Colinas Lane, San Jose, CA 95119 (408) 284-2887.
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Mike Reickerd
December 27, 2014
I worked for John at Echelon, i remember him being a kind and gentle man who cared about his staff. He was a good man to work with and had a devoted staff . I just found out of his passing from a Christmas Card from his wife Lynn, I havent worked for john 4 years, but I always sent a Card to his family....truly saddened, I would have like to have known and paid my last respects to him.....be missed
Sebastian Andreatta
May 1, 2014
I haven't seen him in many years, but I remember him fondly for being a gracious man with a great sense of humor and a good sport - he took teasing well - which I gave him more than my fair share. He was honest and fair and a straight shooter - I'm sad that he's gone but happy to have known and worked with him.
I do have a story about him when I first worked with him at Raynet - he was still trying to get his bearings at the time. I walked into his office and he was at a meeting but left on his computer was a half composed email, to a half dozen friends of his at work, an invitation to his birthday ( I think). Of course I thought it would be funny to play some mischief so I completed the email for him and invited everyone at the company (about 750 people then) - offering beer, BBQ and asking folks to bring their friends along too. I hit send. The thing was that back then on our corporate email you could unsend a message to retrieve it before it hit the server. So I did that but deleted the unsend from his inbox except for the copy that went to me. I went to my office and sent him a reply telling him that it was the talk of the company and we were all coming.
I walked back to his office about an hour later and found him staring in shock at his email reading my message. I bounced in and told him this was so great of him to do this. He promptly turned and with a fearful quiver in his voice just said " I don't know what i did - but my wife is going to kill me...." He explained that he didn't know the new system and that he was only having a few people over and if there was anything i could do - with a sad face i looked at him and said "dude, you are soooo screwed..... So! what can I bring!?"
I still crack up thinking about that - of course I eventually told him that all was well and he promised to get me someday - which he never did - he was that good a guy.
Claude Romans
April 30, 2014
I am so sorry to read about John. I will miss him as I enjoyed working with him at Raynet and later Ericsson Fiber access. He always behaved in a fair and professional way, and in doing so he was admired and respected by all his workmates. He will be missed.
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