Family,
Last Friday night in Hartford, Connecticut, after several months of battling cancer, Ed Harrigan graduated to the mansion worlds.
Ed’s early years were spent in Boston. He went to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, before moving north to Alaska. There he discovered the Urantia Book and his spiritual family. He was a founding member of the Anchorage study group (’73) and the Northern Light Society of Alaska (’85). Ed attended all the IC’s from ’99 through ’08. He traveled twice to Africa with the International Fellowship Committee and during his second trip in Nigeria, along with fellow Alaskans Barb Maier and Marilyn Connor, they realized the need for more UB's and younger adults to pack them. As a result, the 2x2=MORE project was launched to help finance younger readers to travel two by two and experience the benefits of being exposed to a different culture while sharing the revelation and its teachings. Ed was a generous supporter of these efforts. Here’s one of the early videos that features Ed and the IFC team in Nigeria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=XQa4SLYC_wM
A few years back Ed headed south to the "lower 48" and traveled around visiting many readers and study groups. Perhaps some of you had an opportunity to interact with him and his cheerful personality. In 2018 he was called to return to his native New England region where he was diagnosed with cancer about eight months ago. We give thanks to the New England readers for all their generous acts of kindness. In particular Linda Huff, a Hospice bereavement minister in Connecticut, who has provided enormous service during these transitioning moments and beyond. Ed experienced a loving completion to his evolutionary life journey with friends by his side. There was a service in Hartford, Connecticut, Sunday, March 17th 2019 in the afternoon that Linda will be officiating. If you’d like more information, please write me back. His Alaskan family will celebrate his life with a summer camp out in his honor. He will be remembered for his hardy laugh, keen mind, love for Jesus, loyalty to the revelation, and generous heart.
Ed would have turned 70 years old today March 13th 2019!
Happy Birthday, brother … Godspeed!
Tony Finstad
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Thanks for letting us know about Ed, Tony. He was a remarkable man and made major contributions to the work of the revelation in a very quiet way probably unknown to most readers. I join you in acknowledging him and wishing him Godspeed! David Kantor
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I fondly remember Ed, he was a lovely man.
On his way...Kathy George Moore
Edward F. Harrigan
March 13, 1949 -
March 8, 2019
Born in Boston, Massachusetts
Resided in Hartford, Connecticut Longtime Alaska resident Edward F. Harrigan passed away on March 8, 2019 in Hartford Conn. after a battle with cancer. He was attended by his dear Sunita and surrounded by friends and loved ones to the last.
Ed, who passed days before turning 70, was born and raised in the Boston area. He received a Bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Cornell but went looking for adventure in Alaska--he'd heard of high wages fighting forest fires. Once there and enamored with Alaska's charms he invited his friends back east to visit and many did, most of whom then came to stay. Although he never did fight a fire, he commercial fished and then took up a career in general and finish carpentry. But his passion lay along spiritual lines; after introduction to the Urantia Book he immersed himself in its study and joined fellow Anchorage readers in their group. The book became central to his belief in God, the nature of the after-life, and the development of his soul. He encouraged everyone he met in their spiritual quests and happily revealed the book to those interested. He traveled the world to conferences and book fairs with that aim. After leaving Alaska his long-term plans involved getting his boat seaworthy and sailing the Caribbean, meeting and encouraging new readers and seekers.
Ed was addicted to being Positive and he touched everyone he met by seeing the good in them and encouraging it. He was a gentle soul with a razor-sharp mind and a heart of gold; none who met him will forget his infectious laughter and stubborn optimism.
