Edmund C. (Ned ) Hoeppner

Edmund Charles Hoeppner died on November 19, 2005 at the Johnson Health Care Center in Carol Stream, Illinois after a six-year battle with bladder cancer.  Ned was born in Mt. Vernon, New York and was graduated from McKinley High School in Washington, D.C.  A history major, he obtained an MBA at Columbia in 1953.  He met Maurine Guest while working at RCA in New York City, and they were married while he was in the Army.  He then began an Illinois Bell-AT&T career that spanned 33 years, with stops in Rockford and Glen Ellyn, Illinois and Short Hills, New Jersey.  In 1989 he returned to Glen Ellyn and became a history professor at the College of DuPage.  Ned was an elder in the Presbyterian church and a member of Rotary One in Chicago.  He is survived by Maurine, children Charles, Mary and Susan and three grandchildren.