2008
Edward M. Hope Sr., 83, a retired electrician with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers' Local 26, serving the
Washington area, died Aug. 28 at Wuesthoff Medical Center in Rockledge, Fla. He had congestive heart failure.
Mr. Hope was an electrical supervisor for large power plants, office buildings and the Metro subway system before retiring in
1985. He moved to Merritt Island, Fla., from Bryans Road, in Charles County, in the mid-1990s.
Edward Matthew Hope was born in Washington and was a 1942 graduate of Eastern High School. He attended what is now
Iowa State University and was a Navy veteran of World War II.
His memberships included the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans and the Loyal
Order of Moose.
His first wife, Gladys Hill Hope, died in 1952. A son from that marriage, Edward M. Hope Jr., died in 2004. His second marriage,
to Margaret Nelson Hope, ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife of 41 years, Helen Donahue Hope of Merritt Island; two children from his first marriage, Robert E.
Hope of Diana, W.Va., and Alice Pickett of Port Tobacco; seven children from his second marriage, George Hope and Andrew
Hope, both of Lusby, Margaret 'Peggy' Brown of Lexington, N.C., Nancy Weber of Westminster, Md., Elizabeth 'Betsy' Ross of
Seneca, Ill., Mary Jones of Orlando and Trisha Hope of Maryland; four stepsons, Tom Hope of El Cerrito, Calif., Scott Donahue
of Salinas, Calif., and Randy Donahue and Anthony Donahue, both of Bryans Road; a brother; a sister; 17 grandchildren; 23
great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandson.
-- Adam Bernstein