Edward Michael O’Connor December 17, 2003 of Medford in Wilmington at 100 formerly of Arlington. Son of Patrick and Catherine (Sliney) O’Connor. Husband of the late Edith (McCarty) O’Connor. Father of Lewis Joseph (Dewey) O’Connor of Medford. Brother of Mrs. C. Rose Mulcahy of Arlington and the late Mary, William, David, Maurice, Elizabeth Martin and Steve O’Connor. Calling hours at the Beals-Geake-Magliozzi Funeral Home, 29 Governors Avenue, Medford on Friday the 19th at 8:30 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial at the Saint Francis Church, Fellsway, Medford at 10 a.m. Burial immediately following at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Medford Street, Arlington. Eddie began trucking and transportation at age 15 at Allen’s farm, Arlington with horses. By age 16, each summer morning, he drove from Arlington with a truck load of singing farm working women to Millis. He’d return to Millis each evening to drive the tired but still singing women back to Arlington. Eddie drove for the Cambridge Gas Co. where his manager told his mother that his abilities would be enhanced if he would return to and graduate from high school. He graduated from Arlington High School in 1922 and was valedictorian at Burdett College, Boston in 1924. From then on it was trucking and transportation along the east coast. For six years in the 1930s he set the federal transportation tariffs from his office in Portland, Maine. He spent most of his years as Traffic Manager for Alger Bros., then Adley Trucking in Medford. He was a life long member of the Knights of Columbus, council 109 Arlington. He played baseball and hockey as a young man and ice skated and golfed until recently. He enjoyed telling and writing trucking stories and M.C.ing for the Traffic Club of Boston.