Obituary Record

Edwin Rodger Ling, Sr., 67, a resident of Pass Christian, died January 2, 1999 in Gulfport, Mississippi.

Ed was the first Chief Legal Officer of Chief Counsel, as well as the one who held this position the longest at the Stennis Space Center in Hancock County. He also has served in the same position at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, LA and at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. Prior to that he had been an attorney with the Atomic Energy Commission and served with the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, as well as with the Central Intelligence Agency.

Ed also had a private practice of law for thirty years, and he was the author of six nonfiction books that were published.

He was born in Wichita, Kansas, and was a graduate of Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA and the New York University School of Law in New York, NY. He was active in his community, serving on the Hancock County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors twice as well as President of the Hancock County Loins Club, the Waveland Players and the Mississippi Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Ed always had a smile and a helping hand for others; his motto was always to "Do Good" and this was his aim in life.

Survivors include his beloved wife, Sue Ling: Three daughters, Lorelei Pulliam of Afton, VA: Kristin Smith of Newton, GA; and Magan Winter of Kissimmee, FL; two sons, Edwin Rodger Ling, Jr., and Frank Clifford Ling; a grandson, Gabriel Jacob Long, the latter three all living in or near Chattanooga, TN: a brother Carl Ambrose Ling of Tampa, FL; and a cousin, Carmel Ling of Whittier, CA, in addition to other family members and friends. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Ingrid Hilke Ling; two sisters, Delphine Armfield and Jew Kernohan, and his parents, Frank and Lila Ling.

There will be no visitation, although a memorial service will be held on Thursday, January 7, 1999, at the Church of the Good Shepherd of Espy Avenue, Pass Christian, Ed's church which he had joined in 1996 and which was a constant source of joy to him. Visitation with the family will be following the service in the Fellowship Hall.

The Ling family prefers memorials to a favorite charity or to the Church of the Good Shepherd.

Ed had asked that each of his friends also do a good deed for another or tell someone a good joke in his memory.

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