2007
Edward Winters Krahe, 79, who spent 36 years as a government cartographer and retired from the Defense Mapping Agency in
1983, died Aug. 10 at a daughter's home in Parkton, Md. He had multiple myeloma.
Mr. Krahe spent much of his career with the Naval Oceanographic Office in Suitland before his section was consolidated into the
mapping agency in Brookmont.
After retiring, he organized weekly bicycle rides with fellow retirees. He was a founding member of the Oxon Hill Bicycle Club and
had pedaled 4,000 miles across the country during a nationally organized bicycle trip to celebrate the U.S. bicentennial in 1976.
Mr. Krahe was born in Kittanning, Pa., and spent part of his childhood with his extended family on the family farm at Alum Rock,
Pa., during the Depression.
In 1934, his family moved to Washington, and he graduated from Eastern High School in 1946. As a young man, he was an
Eagle Scout.
During the Korean War, he served in the Navy as a shipboard electronics technician in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean.
Mr. Krahe was a self-taught auto mechanic, sailor and blacksmith for his family's horse. He learned to fly a private plane and
owned a 1947 British-made BSA motorcycle.
He participated in the Big Brother mentoring program and also was a member of the National Capital Lyme Disease
Association. He had developed the disease.
He had homes in Clinton and Shrewsbury, Pa.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Lou Goodall Krahe, whom he married in 1953, of Clinton and Shrewsbury; four children, Chris
Krahe of Cheltenham, Daniel Krahe of Golden, Colo., Kathy Shaffer of Parkton and Diane Krahe of Missoula, Mont.; two sisters,
Connie Wilcox of Porterville, Calif., and Karen Daniels of Waldorf; and one grandson.
-- Adam Bernstein