Edward James Engler, 74, 51st mayor of the City of Laconia and co-founder and president of The Laconia Daily Sun, died on Nov. 5, 2021. The cause of death was colon cancer.

Ed was born at the community hospital in Ipswich, S.D., on June 8, 1947. He was the first child of Donald and Iona Engler. Ed graduated from Ipswich High School in 1965 and then matriculated from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was awarded a bachelor of journalism degree in 1972. At college, Ed met his future wife Suzanne Binkley of Houston, and the couple was married on June 22, 1973.

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