Children
Clark Donald Edinger
Kenneth Edinger
2nd Sadie Heymann
Sibling(s):
Alice
Edinger
Charles Edinger
Amanda Edinger
Frank Roy Edinger |
Notes:
Easton Express, Friday, June 24, 1955, Page 1
Frank Edinger, Kendon Nursery Founder, Dies
Former LVRR Employee Served on Wilson School Board
Frank Roy Edinger, 74, founder of the Kendon Nurseries and
former Wilson Borough school director, died yesterday at 2
p.m. at his home on Freemansburg Highway at Stones Crossing.
Mr. Edinger operated the nursery located at his home address
with his sons, Kenneth and Clark Donald, for whom the business
was named. He remained active in the business until he became
ill June 14.
Born in South Easton on Dec. 6, 1880, he was a son of the
late Frank and Sarah Smull Edinger. In his youth Mr. Edinger
and his father were the only tree trimmers in the city of Easton.
He helped in this work until his father died. He worked for
20 years as a machinist for the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
After locating at 1610 Washington St. in 1907, he started a
business of buying and selling nursery stock in his spare time
while he was employed at the Lehigh Valley shop. He rented
a plot of ground west of Stone's Crossing, on which he raised
vegetables.
In 1919 he purchases the land which is now the rear of the
Kendon Nurseries. While raising vegetables and selling them
with the help of his sons, he also sold fruit from the trees
in his orchard. He discontinued the vegetable business in 1922
and cleared the land of the fruit trees to make room for the
expanding nursery.
By this time he had erected a greenhouse in his yard at the
Washington Street address. There he raised plants which were
transplanted to the nursery. Later he moved his greenhouse
to the nursery. Soon after he erected two more greenhouses.
In 1934 he built the house in which he resided until his death.
Mr. Edinger was a member of the Wilson School Board for 12
years beginning in the 20's. He declined a fifth term. He was
president of the board for two years. He helped lay the cornerstone
of Wilson High School.
He was a charter member of St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, Palmer
Township, and a former member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church,
Wilson.
His first wife, the former Ruth Williamson, died in 1933.
Surviving besides his sons, who reside in Wilson, are his
widow, the former Sadie Heymann Shannon; two stepsons, William
Oliver Shannon, of Hammond, Ind., and Edward Thomas Shannon,
of Mount Bethel, R.D. 1; one brother, Charles, of Philadelphia;
6 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held on Monday at 2 p.m. at the Shillinger
Funeral Home, Easton. |
