Edward Lee Doemland

I think of you so often, and miss you so much. Sometimes, just driving down the street, I will see something that reminds me of our very long friendship, and tears threaten. I will never forget your kindness and generosity to me and to my daughters. We shared so much, and I miss those times. I regret that I didn't get to speak to you one last time (my bad; you called and I didn't return the call...then I got the call from Rae that you had passed). There will always be a hole in the universe...

Never gave thought before today that, although another year, Ed passed away on the same day in August as my most loved Dolores did. May they both continue to rest in peace. Many times and to this day August 2019, within my mind, I continue to hear Ed play on St. Peter's Church Organ and sing his beautiful version of the Lord's Prayer...

Mr. Doemland accompanied. my friend Alicia and I for a music contest at West Allis Central High School in my senior year. He was a wonderful man!

Ed Doemland was (and always will be) my first cousin. Important to me, but in our scattered family, out of communication. I kept up with him through his sister, my cousin Ann. We met as tiny children in Des Plaines--his mother and my dad were siblings. I didn't meet up with him again until I went to college at the University of Chicago. At their home, I heard his music for the first time and was amazed and delighted. In 1961 he played the organ for my wedding at Rockefeller Chapel at U...

Class of 79

We at the Residency in Scottsbluff loved Ed for his generous sharing of his talent at the piano and some of us loved him for himself alone.

I will miss hearing Ed's mellifluous voice on the phone as we discussed all things musical. But his music lives on. Selah Publishing is honored to be the repository for his musical compositions, and we look forward to getting many of his works in print.