Jack P. Edmundson, 90, former borough mayor

Jack P. Edmundson, 90, mayor of Aldan from 1989 to 2006, died of a blood clot Sunday, Sept. 5, at Delaware County Memorial Hospital.

He was a resident for more than 60 years of the Delaware County borough, which in 2007 changed the name of its Triangle Park to Mayor Jack Edmundson Park.

Born near Cheshire, England, Mr. Edmundson came to the States when he was 2.

A daughter, Joan Drake, said that after he had enlisted in the Army during World War II, "somebody said, 'You're not a citizen.' "

That was news to him.

So an Army official told him that if he became a citizen, he would be sent to Officer Candidate School, though he was only a high school graduate, Drake said.

Mr. Edmundson was an artillery officer during the Battle of the Bulge, his daughter said, and served in the occupation forces in Berlin.

A 1938 graduate of Upper Darby High School, he graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1948.

After working for an engineering firm and a car dealership, Mr. Edmundson was an accountant from 1962 to 2003 for Arthur H. Thomas Co., a distributor of scientific equipment in Swedesboro.

He was a founding member of the Aldan Swim Club in the 1950s and was its treasurer "off and on for the first 10 years of the club," Drake said.

A Boy Scout official, he earned the Silver Beaver Award, given for service of 10 years or longer, and was inducted into the Order of the Arrow, which calls itself "scouting's National Honor Society."

He was a life member of the American Legion.

Besides his daughter, Mr. Edmundson is survived by sons Jack P. Jr. and Richard, daughter Patricia Lombardo, a brother, 10 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. Janet, his wife of 54 years, died in 2003.

A life celebration was set for 9:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, at Aldan Union Church, Providence Road and Clifton Avenue, followed by a funeral. Burial is to be in Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill.