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.
Local mom creates Adopt An LPS Senior Facebook group
Adopt An LPS Senior Facebook group By Cheyenne Cole | February 28, 2021 at 6:21 AM CST - Updated February 28 at 6:21 AM
LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) - A Lawton woman is trying to make the school year a little brighter for Lawton Public Schools seniors with an Adopt A Senior 2021 Facebook group.
When you look back on your senior year of high school, you may think of Homecoming, prom and sporting events but the Class of 2021′s memories will be a little different due to the pandemic.
Nicole Bucher is a mother of a MacArthur High School senior. She decided to create a Facebook group - Adopt A Lawton Public Schools Senior 2021 - to support local students.
‘Mr. Ed,’ founder of iconic candy shop, roadside attraction near Gettysburg, dies at 84
Updated Feb 27, 2021;
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The founder of a quirky candy shop and roadside attraction in Adams County died at 84 on Friday, a date his family says was both his wedding anniversary and the anniversary of the founding of his business. Mr. Ed Gotwalt with some of his elephant collection.
By JEFFREY LOWE, Harrisburg Patriot-News/1999Harrisburg Patriot-News
Gotwalt retired in 2014, selling the business to granddaughter Nicole Bucher and her husband, Isaac. Before that, in 2010, the business had survived a devastating fire. After, in 2017, Gotwalt survived a car crash.