Edward Maddin Ainsworth was born in 1902 in Waco, Texas; attended Texas A & M and UCLA; worked for newspapers in Waco, Texas, San Pedro and Bakersfield, California, and Atlanta, Georgia, before coming to work at the Los Angeles Times as a copyreader in 1924; progressed from city editor to state editor, editorial page editor, assistant to the managing editor, and eventually became a columnist; author of column, On the Move; member, Board of Governors, Los Angeles County Museum; member, Zamorano Club, Death Valley 49'ers, and E Clampus Vitus; wrote several books on California and the West and also contributed to various magazines; married Katherine Lake, chief librarian in Monrovia, California, 1931.
Ainsworth died of a heart attack in San Diego, CA on 15 June 1968 while visiting his daughter Sheila Ainsworth Herron and her family.
There was no long procession to his final resting place in El Camino Memorial Park in the outskirts of San Diego. Some thirty or forty of his friends gathered around a mountain of flowers and said goodbye to a cherished companion. It was a simple farewell. That was the way Ed wanted it.
Adios, Amigo Mío. Vaya con Dios.
_______________________________
Edward attended the Waco public schools and graduated in 1920 from Waco High School, where he was editor of the Daisy Chain Yearbook.
Crippled as a child by polio (his right arm and leg were withered), he had use of his left arm from the wrist down and finished high school in a wheel chair.
He followed his father in the newspaper business and worked for papers in Waco, San Pedro and Bakersfield, CA, and Atlanta, GA before joining the staff of the Los Angeles TIMES. Ainsworth was associated with the TIMES for 40 years and held several positions, including editorships of city, state and editorial pages. From 1959 until his retirement in 1967, he wrote a column called "On The Move" six days a week for the paper.
Ainsworth also owned and published the weekly Desert Barnacle. He was the author of a dozen books, primarily about the Southwest: Eagles Fly West, California Jubilee (1948); The California I Love, Painters of the Desert (1961); Beckoning Desert (1962); Pot Luck; and The Cowboy in Art (1968) which received the Western Heritage Award for the best western art book of 1968.
Ainsworth died of a heart attack in San Diego, CA on June 15, 1968 while visiting his daughter Sheila Ainsworth Herron and her family.
Ainsworth died of a heart attack in San Diego, CA on 15 June 1968 while visiting his daughter Sheila Ainsworth Herron and her family.
There was no long procession to his final resting place in El Camino Memorial Park in the outskirts of San Diego. Some thirty or forty of his friends gathered around a mountain of flowers and said goodbye to a cherished companion. It was a simple farewell. That was the way Ed wanted it.
Adios, Amigo Mío. Vaya con Dios.
_______________________________
Edward attended the Waco public schools and graduated in 1920 from Waco High School, where he was editor of the Daisy Chain Yearbook.
Crippled as a child by polio (his right arm and leg were withered), he had use of his left arm from the wrist down and finished high school in a wheel chair.
He followed his father in the newspaper business and worked for papers in Waco, San Pedro and Bakersfield, CA, and Atlanta, GA before joining the staff of the Los Angeles TIMES. Ainsworth was associated with the TIMES for 40 years and held several positions, including editorships of city, state and editorial pages. From 1959 until his retirement in 1967, he wrote a column called "On The Move" six days a week for the paper.
Ainsworth also owned and published the weekly Desert Barnacle. He was the author of a dozen books, primarily about the Southwest: Eagles Fly West, California Jubilee (1948); The California I Love, Painters of the Desert (1961); Beckoning Desert (1962); Pot Luck; and The Cowboy in Art (1968) which received the Western Heritage Award for the best western art book of 1968.
Ainsworth died of a heart attack in San Diego, CA on June 15, 1968 while visiting his daughter Sheila Ainsworth Herron and her family.
Edward Maddin Ainsworth was born in 1902 in Waco, Texas; attended Texas A & M and UCLA; worked for newspapers in Waco, Texas, San Pedro and Bakersfield, California, and Atlanta, Georgia, before coming to work at the Los Angeles Times as a copyreader in 1924; progressed from city editor to state editor, editorial page editor, assistant to the managing editor, and eventually became a columnist; author of column, On the Move; member, Board of Governors, Los Angeles County Museum; member, Zamorano Club, Death Valley 49'ers, and E Clampus Vitus; wrote several books on California and the West and also contributed to various magazines; married Katherine Lake, chief librarian in Monrovia, California, 1931.
Ainsworth died of a heart attack in San Diego, CA on 15 June 1968 while visiting his daughter Sheila Ainsworth Herron and her family.
There was no long procession to his final resting place in El Camino Memorial Park in the outskirts of San Diego. Some thirty or forty of his friends gathered around a mountain of flowers and said goodbye to a cherished companion. It was a simple farewell. That was the way Ed wanted it.
Adios, Amigo Mío. Vaya con Dios.
_______________________________
Edward attended the Waco public schools and graduated in 1920 from Waco High School, where he was editor of the Daisy Chain Yearbook.
Crippled as a child by polio (his right arm and leg were withered), he had use of his left arm from the wrist down and finished high school in a wheel chair.
He followed his father in the newspaper business and worked for papers in Waco, San Pedro and Bakersfield, CA, and Atlanta, GA before joining the staff of the Los Angeles TIMES. Ainsworth was associated with the TIMES for 40 years and held several positions, including editorships of city, state and editorial pages. From 1959 until his retirement in 1967, he wrote a column called "On The Move" six days a week for the paper.
Ainsworth also owned and published the weekly Desert Barnacle. He was the author of a dozen books, primarily about the Southwest: Eagles Fly West, California Jubilee (1948); The California I Love, Painters of the Desert (1961); Beckoning Desert (1962); Pot Luck; and The Cowboy in Art (1968) which received the Western Heritage Award for the best western art book of 1968.
Ainsworth died of a heart attack in San Diego, CA on June 15, 1968 while visiting his daughter Sheila Ainsworth Herron and her family.
Ainsworth died of a heart attack in San Diego, CA on 15 June 1968 while visiting his daughter Sheila Ainsworth Herron and her family.
There was no long procession to his final resting place in El Camino Memorial Park in the outskirts of San Diego. Some thirty or forty of his friends gathered around a mountain of flowers and said goodbye to a cherished companion. It was a simple farewell. That was the way Ed wanted it.
Adios, Amigo Mío. Vaya con Dios.
_______________________________
Edward attended the Waco public schools and graduated in 1920 from Waco High School, where he was editor of the Daisy Chain Yearbook.
Crippled as a child by polio (his right arm and leg were withered), he had use of his left arm from the wrist down and finished high school in a wheel chair.
He followed his father in the newspaper business and worked for papers in Waco, San Pedro and Bakersfield, CA, and Atlanta, GA before joining the staff of the Los Angeles TIMES. Ainsworth was associated with the TIMES for 40 years and held several positions, including editorships of city, state and editorial pages. From 1959 until his retirement in 1967, he wrote a column called "On The Move" six days a week for the paper.
Ainsworth also owned and published the weekly Desert Barnacle. He was the author of a dozen books, primarily about the Southwest: Eagles Fly West, California Jubilee (1948); The California I Love, Painters of the Desert (1961); Beckoning Desert (1962); Pot Luck; and The Cowboy in Art (1968) which received the Western Heritage Award for the best western art book of 1968.
Ainsworth died of a heart attack in San Diego, CA on June 15, 1968 while visiting his daughter Sheila Ainsworth Herron and her family.
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