Edwin A. Dickson

Edwin A. Dickson passed away on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016.

Ed was born in Indianapolis Ind., one of four children. He attended Park Tudor School there but graduated from Fenster School in Tuscon, Ariz. In his teen years, he completed a five-week, prairie trek designed to inspire and challenge young men through wilderness backpacking, local service projects, rock climbing, mountaineering, canyoneering, and exploration of cultural and scientific sites around the Four Corners area, where he learned to love the Pueblo and Navajo Indian culture and art.

In Aspen, Colo., Ed met the love of his life, Drewe (McDowell) Dickson. She owned The Country Flower Boutique in Aspen, where Drewe created beautiful hand-made clothing and art in the 1970s. Drewe and Ed moved to Escondido, Calif., where Ed rented a corner lot from the city to grow spectacular Protea flowers. Ed and Drewe were married in Las Vegas 35 years ago.

Ed spent many summers in the Harbor Springs/Petosky area of Lake Michigan where he learned to fish and fell in love with big waters.

In 1992, he and Drewe moved to Sand-point, Idaho, and purchased Diamond Charters where Ed’s career as a charter captain flourished in spite of the changing regulations and fish-counts of Lake Pend Oreille. They built a home in Hope, Idaho, and Ed continued to captain and amuse his guests with wonderful stories, local lore, historic and geologic information about the area.

Ed’s parents Richard and Peggy Dickson of Indianapolis; and an older brother, Mike Dickson of Atlanta; passed away before him. Ed is survived by his wife, Drewe at home; his brother, John Dickson of Gig Harbor, Wash.; his sister, Prudence Hoffman in Grants Pass, Ore.; and his beloved Airedale, Sawyer.

No formal services are being planned but there will be a celebration of life at a later date in 2017