
October 1, 1957 – March 30, 2025
Edmund Gareth Plank, born October 1st, 1957, a Paulding on his mother’s side.
Master of the vigilant glance, you must have already been looking when the lead-elk appeared while I gazed at something else, my beloved polkadot hills, smoking my pipe contentedly in the late afternoon. “You might want to check out the elk,” you said, breaking into my reverie. And so I followed where you pointed high on…

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I have few regrets in life. One of them is not having reached out to Gareth over these many years. You were a mentor, a friend, an employer, a verbal sparring partner, someone with whom to get into trouble, and always a man I respected. Rest in peace. You will be missed.