Edward Cleveland Dulaney

Born June 9, 1963, to Edward Cleveland Dulaney Sr. and Elizabeth Golden-Dulaney, Edward Cleveland Dulaney, Jr. was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, the third of 3 boys. His brothers, Frederick and Ivan, along with his parents preceded him in death.
A visitation will be held from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on September 14th at Lunn's Colonial Funeral Home.
Edward Cleveland Dulaney Sr. was well into his 70's when Ed was born and passed away when Ed was 7 years old. His brother, Ivan, almost 20 years his senior, took on the role of father figure teaching Ed things like riding a bike and fishing. However, having his own life, Ivan did not have as much time to spend with Ed as he would have liked. Also, complicating matters, Ed's mom chose to move them to El Paso, TX when Ed was in his late adolescent years.
Ed spent his teenage years wandering the wide open spaces around El Paso shooting air rifles, riding bicycles and motorcycles with his friends. His interests and play all added to his self-reliance.
Ed found himself interested in radio and found that he had a talent and enjoyed working with electronics and electronic gadgets as well as being a talented on-air personality and programmer. He modified a CB radio so that he could broadcast a radio signal he called The Cricket. He would set up and broadcast for a couple hours at a time from time to time so that his friends could enjoy his broadcast at their homes.
Ed also found that he enjoyed computers and saved his money so that he could purchase a Radio Shack brand TRS-80 computer; a very early PC. He began pursuing computer programming skills in BASIC on the TRS-80 and studied the internal workings of computers. Later he began exploring and learning other programming languages. He scrounged and found other early version PC's such as the SuperBrain. He also delved into the newer technology of the day having purchased and learned to operate and did some programming of the Atari ST.
Ed dropped out of high school to get a job to help support his mom, but easily earned his GED. His ability to learn and self-teach was impressive having taught himself advanced math skills including algebra, geometry, trigonometry and even some calculus. His talents, knowledge and skills were very impressive. His knowledge and skills were most always self-taught. There was very little, if anything, he might have learned had he stayed in school.
Knowing that he loved radio, Ed obtained a job at KROD as assistant engineer doing odd jobs that included monitoring transmitter and antenna systems. That further spurred his interest in electronics. He became a ham radio operator earning multiple levels of license. Over the course of time he acquired various ham radio equipment that sometimes needed repair. That demanded that he learn electronic theory and so, naturally, he obtained books and began teaching himself. Ham radio also spurred him to experiment with different antennae designs and different ways of utilizing ham radio. He once used his computer programming skills to develop a program that allowed him to use the computer to convert typed phrases into Morse code. He found great joy in communicating with other ham operators around the world, bouncing signals from country to country after sunset.
Ed met his first wife in El Paso. After Sandy graduated high school, she chose to attend college at Texas Tech. Ed had been working at a local El Paso television station but when he found himself out of a job, he followed his fiancé to Lubbock, TX. There he continued his extensive radio and television career, both in programming and engineering beginning with part-time work but later took on full-time responsibilities at KJAK radio.
When an opportunity arose to become Chief Engineer at KZOR in Hobbs, NM, he took the job and they moved to Hobbs.
After several years, Ed felt a yearning to move to Colorado. They moved to Denver, Colorado where again he took a part-time job at a local radio station in programming but offered engineering help to the struggling station.
His talents as an out-of-the-box thinker and hands-on approach-never afraid to tackle any project-soon landed him full-time positions as a radio broadcast engineer where he added to his skills.
Ed's talents were noticed by Crawford Broadcasting where he was hired as chief engineer and further added to his distinction with the supervision, which included a lot of hands-on, of the building of a brand new AM station multi-tower directional array. A very complex time consuming build that required many skills, to say the least.
Sadly, not long after their second child was born, Ed and Sandy divorced. It was a very difficult time for Ed. Sandy moved to Oregon with their children and that made it difficult for Ed to visit with their girls. His tender heart was broken but he continued to use his talents to help others any time he could.
After a long distinguished career with Crawford, Ed briefly took another position that had some very good potential but it did not pan out and he found himself searching for another job.
He joined GAP Broadcasting and returned to Texas moving to Wichita Falls. He would later tell friends, "I could not get back to Texas quick enough". He loved Texas, especially Texas sunsets!
After GAP transitioned to Townsquare Media, Ed became Regional Engineering Manager, where, again, he was able to apply his out-of-the-box, creative thinking and astonishing skill set as he engaged in several major radio transmitter and studio build-out projects.
The move to Wichita Falls proved to be very beneficial because Ed met the love of his life, his wife Vicki in 2013. The two were later married on April 17th, 2015. Together, they enjoyed working around their country house and 3 acres of land. He garnered great joy adding to his skill set by remodeling their house and designing and creating wood, metal and plastic crafts, very often specially for his beloved Vicki. He loved making her eternal daisies, ones that never perished.
Ed never stopped teaching himself new things. He continued to educate himself, learning many different computer programming languages, various complicated computer software, welding and woodworking, just to name a few things.
As usual, Ed used every opportunity to learn and apply his skills to his hobbies. Going back to the days of his childhood in Pennsylvania and teen years in El Paso, Ed had always found joy in exploring the outdoors. While in Colorado, he taught himself to snow ski and gladly invited his friends to join him on the slopes. But he also enjoyed time alone riding his bicycles and motorcycles. One of his motorcycles doubled as an off-road bike that allowed him to explore mountain trails. Upon arriving in Wichita Falls, Ed found much pleasure in exploring the countryside, especially around the Red River. Ed and Vicki purchased 2 ATV's and spent countless hours riding them, exploring the area around the Red River. Later they purchased a pontoon and lovingly named it "BobberAnn" (a nod to their love of music and Ed's love of word puns.)
His play time served to add to his knowledge and skills as he would solve "problems" that hindered his maximum enjoyment. His creativity was spurred through his various hobbies including teaching himself to play the guitar and the keyboard. Again, he used his computer talents to write songs and interface with the keyboard to play along with him as he played the guitar.
Ed enjoyed collecting and shooting various rifles and handguns. Otherwise lazy afternoons found him honing his skills as a marksman at the gun range or later at his country home in Wichita Falls where he built a berm especially for his shooting hobby.
Ed also enjoyed hunting. He invited friends to join him to hunt on his property and spoke with neighbors to obtain permission to hunt on their property. And of course, took the time to hunt on the hunting grounds of the Red River.
Being a very practical man, after many conversations, Ed recognized a need and in the ultimate display of his very giving and kind heart, he told Vicki they would purchase an unfinished cabin and put it on their property. They would take advantage of his enormous skill set to finish the inside to make living quarters for her mother so that he and Vicki could keep an eye on her since she is not in the best of health. The house was not completely finished before his untimely death.
Through many years Ed earned the love and respect of his work colleagues, neighbors and friends. His work colleagues came to rely on him for advice to do their jobs for which he gladly helped. He gladly assisted friends and neighbors with their projects as well, offering a helping hand, again, using his wide variety of skills or jumping at the opportunity to develop new skills to help others.
Of course, he earned the deep loving admiration of his beloved wife, Vicki.
On the evening of September 3, 2024, Vicki came home to find that Ed had passed away. He is sorely missed and will be forever loved.
Since meeting Ed, I witnessed and admired his commitment to not only family and friends but also to the community in which he lived. I stood in awe of him; he never ceased to amaze me! Every year during the annual Hospice of Wichita Falls tree of lights tree lighting campaign (aka, "Radio Day"), Ed would generously donate. In Lieu of flowers, please consider honoring his memory by making a donation to this wonderful charity in his name.
Thank You, Vicki