ANNISQUAM: Edward W. “Ed” Roewer, 90, of Brooksby Village, Peabody, formerly of Annisquam, died December 14, 2010 in the Kaplan Family Hospice House, Danvers. He was the beloved husband of Anna H. (Kreiton) Roewer.
Born in Cambridge on January 8, 1920, he was the son of the late George E. and Rosa (Heinzen) Roewer. He was also the great-grandson of Louis Prang, who produced Christmas cards and introduced them to America in Boston in 1868.
He was a graduate of Cambridge High and Latin School. Following graduation he went to Lawrence Academy, where he was captain of the football and baseball teams and pitched a no hitter against his old team, Cambridge High and Latin. He was also a graduate of Dartmouth College class of 1944 and received his Masters Degree from Boston University in 1953. While at Dartmouth, Ed was a member of the 1942 Championship National Collegiate Hockey Team.
A U.S. Navy Air Force veteran of World War II, he achieved the rank of Lieutenant as a PB4Y Liberator bomber aviator, where he was the pilot and aircraft commander of anti-submarine patrols in the South Pacific, South Atlantic and England.
Ed and Ann were married in 1944. He taught language classes and coached football, hockey, baseball and golf in public, private and secondary schools in Missouri and Massachusetts. While at Reading High School, he introduced hockey as a varsity sport in the 1957 – 1958 season. He retired as Vice Principal of the Gloucester High School in 1975. He then worked for the Pike-Grondin Funeral Home for nineteen rewarding years, having retired in 1995.
He enjoyed golf, tennis and platform tennis and was an avid reader. He was a former member of the Bass Rocks Golf Club and the Annisquam Yacht Club. Ed served as treasurer of the Annisquam Village Hall, Goose Cove Fund, Cape Ann Paddle Tennis Club and The Leonard Club.
Ed and Ann enjoyed several trips across the United States, Europe and South America. Five Rhodesian Ridgebacks were wonderful members of their family for fifty-four years.
In addition to his wife of sixty-six years, he is survived by his nieces and nephews, Margaret Roewer-Giguere of Auburn, ME, Nancy Fowler of Carrabassett Valley, ME, Jon Roewer of Manlius, NY, Mary Farr of Fayetteville, NC, John Nichols of Dateland, AZ, Edward Kreiton of Winthrop, ME and David Kreiton of Ocala, FL and many grandnieces and grandnephews. He was also predeceased by two brothers, George E. Roewer, Jr. and Louis P. Roewer.
His funeral service will be held on Wednesday, January 5th in the Annisquam Village Church, 820 Washington Street, Gloucester at 11 a.m. Relatives and friends are cordially invited to attend.