EDWARD R. PADGETT DIES IN BALTIMORE

Former Washington Newspaper Man Succumbs to Heart Attack After a Swim

Edward Riddle Padgett, Sunday editor of the Baltimore Sun, who formerly held a similar position on The Evening Star, died at his home in the University Apartments, Baltimore, yesterday afternoon. Death was due to heart disease, believed to have been brought on from swimming earlier in the day, it is said. He was 43 years old.

Mr. Padgett was born in Washington, and was the son of the late James E. Padgett and a grandson of Rev. George W. Heyde.

After completing his early education, Mr. Padgett attended St. John's College at Annapolis, being graduated in 1904. He then went to the University of Pennsylvania for post-graduate work.

Completing his work at the last-named institution, Mr. Padgett began his career as a newspaper man in Cincinnati, where he became Sunday editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer. He came from that paper to The Evening Star. Subsequently he was Sunday editor of the Detroit News, the Baltimore American and the Sun.

During the World War, Mr. Padgett was a captain in the intelligence section of the Army, and was stationed in this city. He was interested in athletics, art and literature; was a member of the Baltimore Athletic Club, a vice president of the Charcoal Club and a member of the Scarab Club, an organization of artists and art lovers of Detroit.

Mr. Padgett is survived by his widow, Mrs. Dora Adele Padgett; a son, Edward Padgett, and a brother, Henry A. Padgett of Chicago.

Published in The Evening Star (Washington, District of Columbia) on Tuesday, August 4, 1925.

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Captain, Military Intelligence

Editor of the Baltimore Sun, former editor of the Detroit News, the Washington Star, the Baltimore American, and the Cincinnati Enquirer, where he began his journalism career as an editor

Passed away of heart failure at his home in the University Apartments in his 43rd year after a morning of swimming

Services were held at the chapel of Stewart & Mowen, 109 West North Avenue and were conducted by Rev. Meade Bolton McBryde, rector of Grace Protestant Episcopal Church in Washington, a classmate of Mr. Padgett's from the University of Pennsylvania

Body was cremated and initially taken to Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, where several generations of his ancestors are buried

He was survived by his wife and son and preceded in death by an infant son