The Arizona Daily Star, 20 Sept. 2009
DAVIDSON, Edward "Ed", was born November 17th, 1926 and passed from this life on August 7th, 2009.
Ed joined the Navy during WWII and was sent to an accelerated program at Dartmouth College. He later attended Cornell University where he graduated with a degree in Geology. Out of college Ed accepted a job with the United States Geologic Survey where his career took him to many places. He worked copper in Michigan and uranium in Utah, eventually making his way to Arizona where he specialized in hydrology and later transfered to the Water Resources Division within the USGS. By the winter of 1966 Ed's groundwater expertise became international in scope. He was sent to solve water contamination problems in Jordan and Egypt under U.S. A.I.D. programs. Several more international assignments would come as did a two year stint in Washington, D.C.
In addition to his work with the USGS, Water Resources Division Ed taught several geology courses at the University of Arizona. For the last twenty plus years of his life Ed summered on Orcas Island located northwest of Seattle and wintered in Tucson, Arizona. In both places he was a avid tennis player. When on Orcas he spent many rewarding hours on his boat plying the waters around the San Juan Islands. Woodworking and automotive tinkering rounded out his activities.
He was proceded in death by his parents, Charles and Polly Davidson; sisters, Harriet and Olive; brother, Parker Davidson; wives, Ruth Evelyn Garretson and Lucy Victoria Wolf; daughter, Denise Jennifer Davidson and stepson, Timothy Robin Hahn.
He is survived by two sons, Russell Garrett Davidson of Midland, Texas and Brett Parker Davidson of San Ramone, California; stepchildren, Christopher Todd Hahn of Phippsburg, Maine and Jamie Lynn Taylor of Tucson, Arizona, and step-daughter-in-law, Liz Nash Hahn also of Tucson, Arizona.
Special gratitude is expressed by the family to the following person whose extraordinary compassion made our father's final years comfortable: Maggie Kaplan of East Sound, Washington. A heart felt thanks Maggie.
A Memorial is scheduled for 2:00 p.m., Friday the 25th, of September 2009 at the ADAIR FUNERAL HOMES, AVALON CHAPEL, 8090 N. Northern. Funeral arrangements are under the care of Desert Sunset Funeral Home on Orange Grove Road. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to the American Heart Association of Tucson.
DAVIDSON, Edward "Ed", was born November 17th, 1926 and passed from this life on August 7th, 2009.
Ed joined the Navy during WWII and was sent to an accelerated program at Dartmouth College. He later attended Cornell University where he graduated with a degree in Geology. Out of college Ed accepted a job with the United States Geologic Survey where his career took him to many places. He worked copper in Michigan and uranium in Utah, eventually making his way to Arizona where he specialized in hydrology and later transfered to the Water Resources Division within the USGS. By the winter of 1966 Ed's groundwater expertise became international in scope. He was sent to solve water contamination problems in Jordan and Egypt under U.S. A.I.D. programs. Several more international assignments would come as did a two year stint in Washington, D.C.
In addition to his work with the USGS, Water Resources Division Ed taught several geology courses at the University of Arizona. For the last twenty plus years of his life Ed summered on Orcas Island located northwest of Seattle and wintered in Tucson, Arizona. In both places he was a avid tennis player. When on Orcas he spent many rewarding hours on his boat plying the waters around the San Juan Islands. Woodworking and automotive tinkering rounded out his activities.
He was proceded in death by his parents, Charles and Polly Davidson; sisters, Harriet and Olive; brother, Parker Davidson; wives, Ruth Evelyn Garretson and Lucy Victoria Wolf; daughter, Denise Jennifer Davidson and stepson, Timothy Robin Hahn.
He is survived by two sons, Russell Garrett Davidson of Midland, Texas and Brett Parker Davidson of San Ramone, California; stepchildren, Christopher Todd Hahn of Phippsburg, Maine and Jamie Lynn Taylor of Tucson, Arizona, and step-daughter-in-law, Liz Nash Hahn also of Tucson, Arizona.
Special gratitude is expressed by the family to the following person whose extraordinary compassion made our father's final years comfortable: Maggie Kaplan of East Sound, Washington. A heart felt thanks Maggie.
A Memorial is scheduled for 2:00 p.m., Friday the 25th, of September 2009 at the ADAIR FUNERAL HOMES, AVALON CHAPEL, 8090 N. Northern. Funeral arrangements are under the care of Desert Sunset Funeral Home on Orange Grove Road. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to the American Heart Association of Tucson.
The Arizona Daily Star, 20 Sept. 2009
DAVIDSON, Edward "Ed", was born November 17th, 1926 and passed from this life on August 7th, 2009.
Ed joined the Navy during WWII and was sent to an accelerated program at Dartmouth College. He later attended Cornell University where he graduated with a degree in Geology. Out of college Ed accepted a job with the United States Geologic Survey where his career took him to many places. He worked copper in Michigan and uranium in Utah, eventually making his way to Arizona where he specialized in hydrology and later transfered to the Water Resources Division within the USGS. By the winter of 1966 Ed's groundwater expertise became international in scope. He was sent to solve water contamination problems in Jordan and Egypt under U.S. A.I.D. programs. Several more international assignments would come as did a two year stint in Washington, D.C.
In addition to his work with the USGS, Water Resources Division Ed taught several geology courses at the University of Arizona. For the last twenty plus years of his life Ed summered on Orcas Island located northwest of Seattle and wintered in Tucson, Arizona. In both places he was a avid tennis player. When on Orcas he spent many rewarding hours on his boat plying the waters around the San Juan Islands. Woodworking and automotive tinkering rounded out his activities.
He was proceded in death by his parents, Charles and Polly Davidson; sisters, Harriet and Olive; brother, Parker Davidson; wives, Ruth Evelyn Garretson and Lucy Victoria Wolf; daughter, Denise Jennifer Davidson and stepson, Timothy Robin Hahn.
He is survived by two sons, Russell Garrett Davidson of Midland, Texas and Brett Parker Davidson of San Ramone, California; stepchildren, Christopher Todd Hahn of Phippsburg, Maine and Jamie Lynn Taylor of Tucson, Arizona, and step-daughter-in-law, Liz Nash Hahn also of Tucson, Arizona.
Special gratitude is expressed by the family to the following person whose extraordinary compassion made our father's final years comfortable: Maggie Kaplan of East Sound, Washington. A heart felt thanks Maggie.
A Memorial is scheduled for 2:00 p.m., Friday the 25th, of September 2009 at the ADAIR FUNERAL HOMES, AVALON CHAPEL, 8090 N. Northern. Funeral arrangements are under the care of Desert Sunset Funeral Home on Orange Grove Road. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to the American Heart Association of Tucson.
DAVIDSON, Edward "Ed", was born November 17th, 1926 and passed from this life on August 7th, 2009.
Ed joined the Navy during WWII and was sent to an accelerated program at Dartmouth College. He later attended Cornell University where he graduated with a degree in Geology. Out of college Ed accepted a job with the United States Geologic Survey where his career took him to many places. He worked copper in Michigan and uranium in Utah, eventually making his way to Arizona where he specialized in hydrology and later transfered to the Water Resources Division within the USGS. By the winter of 1966 Ed's groundwater expertise became international in scope. He was sent to solve water contamination problems in Jordan and Egypt under U.S. A.I.D. programs. Several more international assignments would come as did a two year stint in Washington, D.C.
In addition to his work with the USGS, Water Resources Division Ed taught several geology courses at the University of Arizona. For the last twenty plus years of his life Ed summered on Orcas Island located northwest of Seattle and wintered in Tucson, Arizona. In both places he was a avid tennis player. When on Orcas he spent many rewarding hours on his boat plying the waters around the San Juan Islands. Woodworking and automotive tinkering rounded out his activities.
He was proceded in death by his parents, Charles and Polly Davidson; sisters, Harriet and Olive; brother, Parker Davidson; wives, Ruth Evelyn Garretson and Lucy Victoria Wolf; daughter, Denise Jennifer Davidson and stepson, Timothy Robin Hahn.
He is survived by two sons, Russell Garrett Davidson of Midland, Texas and Brett Parker Davidson of San Ramone, California; stepchildren, Christopher Todd Hahn of Phippsburg, Maine and Jamie Lynn Taylor of Tucson, Arizona, and step-daughter-in-law, Liz Nash Hahn also of Tucson, Arizona.
Special gratitude is expressed by the family to the following person whose extraordinary compassion made our father's final years comfortable: Maggie Kaplan of East Sound, Washington. A heart felt thanks Maggie.
A Memorial is scheduled for 2:00 p.m., Friday the 25th, of September 2009 at the ADAIR FUNERAL HOMES, AVALON CHAPEL, 8090 N. Northern. Funeral arrangements are under the care of Desert Sunset Funeral Home on Orange Grove Road. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to the American Heart Association of Tucson.
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