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He loved theater, but Mister Ed didn’t put on an act.
Ed Gotwalt really did live each day doing whatever he could to make both friends and strangers happy. He really was, as many people have put it, larger than life. There are people out there that work really hard at being characters, then there are some characters out there and that s what they are, they don t try at it. Ed was a showman. He was obviously an entrepreneur. He was always on. But there was something genuine about it, said Terry Burger, who got to know Ed over his decades working as a journalist in southcentral Pennsylvania.
He was an actor, businessman, friend, family man, traveler and eternal optimist.
Gotwalt, better known as Mister Ed, died Friday at the age of 84. Friends and family members who gathered Sunday via Zoom said Gotwalt had enough experiences for two lifetimes.
Gotwaltâs fame began on Feb. 26, 1975, when he and his wife, Pat, opened Mister Edâs: The Areaâs Most Unusual General Store in Orrtanna on their wedding anniversary. He died on the same date 46 years later.
âHe was such a magnetic personality, everyone wanted to be part of what he was doing,â his granddaughter, Nicole Bucher, said.
To Nicole, he âwas the worldâs great grandpaâ who not only embraced her childhood desire to take horseback riding lessons but became a fellow student.