Edward D. Mergler, age 80, died April 8, 2004 at his daughter's home in Ellicott City, MD. Mr. Mergler was born in New York City and raised in Bayside, New York. He served in a gunnery batallion of the Army of the United States during WWII and was honorably discharged in 1945. Following his military service he worked with, and retired in 1982 from, Bell Atlantic. A man of countless skills, he built a home in Syosset, where he and his wife, Mary, lived for 30 years and raised their family. In 1984, he and his wife retired to Port St. Lucie, FL.

His wife, the former Mary Jane Drum, preceded him in death. Survivors include his sons and daughters, Edward Mergler III of Three Rivers, CA; James Mergler of Cos Cob, CT and his son Edward IV; Jane Mergler of Ellicott City, MD; and MaryAnn Mergler-Sylvia of Jupiter Farms, FL; her husband, Michael and their children Caitlin and Daniel.

Edward P. Horn, beloved father and grandfather, retired mechanical engineer and native son of Cleveland, OH, died on April 15, 2004 in Manhattan at NY-Presbyterian Hospital. The cause of death was complication following hip fracture. He was 87 years old and resided in Waccabuc, Westchester County, NY, after living many years in Oyster Bay Cove and East Norwich, and in Wellsville, NY.

Edward Paul Horn, born Feb. 25, 1917, was the younger of the two children of Edward Hunsacker Horn and Helen Emma Conner Horn. The Horn family had deep roots in Cuyahoga County; both of Mr. Horn's paternal great-grandfathers fought with the Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. He was a descendant of the Andreas Hopper family from the Netherlands that settled New Amsterdam in 1651 (now Manhattan) and Mr. Horn was a cousin of the American artist Edward Hopper.

A graduate of Northfield High School, Ed Horn received his bachelor of science in mechanical engineering in 1939 from the Case School of Applied Science (now Case Western Reserve University) in Cleveland. In May 1940, he wed Cleveland native Ruth Anne Dunn, who shared his life until her death in 1992.

Primarily focused in fossil fuel and nuclear power plant construction and design, Mr. Horn's career took him to many major cities in the eastern half of the US, and globally to the Pacific Rim and the Middle East. He worked in Manhattan for the last 17 years of his career, where he was first employed by Bechtel Corporation as senior engineer involved in the design of two power plants in Maryland, followed by Gibbs & Hill, where he was supervising engineer for design and bid analysis for power plants in Taiwan, South Korea, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

From 1950 to 1967 in Wellsville, NY, Ed was a mechanical engineer for Air Preheater Company now part of Alstrom Power Inc. He was responsible for a mechanical engineering lab that designed and developed for commercialization the Ljungstrom(r) regenerative air preheater, the company's main product and a vital component of most fossil fuel based power plants. (Ljungstrom air preheater was invented in the 1920s).

Earlier, Mr. Horn was a marine engineer for the US Maritime Commission in Washington, DC, during WWII. He was recruited the day after Pearl Harbor for civilian service, allocating material for the construction of the Liberty Ships and conducting steam cycle economic studies for steamship power plants. He was present on the trial run of the Emory Victory testing the performance of the first diesel engine powered Victory Ship. He also selected and specified all mechanical equipment for the Neptune class cable laying and repair ships, Albert J. Myer and William H.G. Bullard.

Edward P. Horn is survived by a son, Edward James of Boston, MS; and a daughter, Nancy Elizabeth Horn Pitts of New Canaan, CT; and his devoted companion of 10 years, Jean Thompson Londin of Waccabuc, NY and Manhattan. He has four grandsons, four granddaughters and 10 great-grandchildren. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. on April 25 at South Salem Presbyterian Church in S. Salem, NY. Interment Northfield-Macedonia Cemetery near Cleveland. Arrangements were made by Clark Associates Funeral Home, Katonah, NY.