If you would, Steve, please speak for me to his family and express my sense of loss and my condolences to them. Maybe you could copy this PM and send it along to his family as a note from one of those who will miss Ed and the way he touched the lives of so many.
John I actually just sent his daughter Erin an email a couple minutes ago, but I think that's a great idea about letting them know how much Ed was liked here. I don't want to bug her too much in this time they are going through, but I'll send her an email in the next couple days with a link to this post. Because I think Ed's family would probably like to see just how much people really liked Ed and how highly they thought of him as well as how many friends he had which they probably didn't even know about.

Steve