Edward (Ed) Gilbert Warren passed away peacefully and comfortably at his home with his family by his bedside. He was 78.
Ed was born on July 5, 1941, to Gilbert Warren and Edith (Yetter) in Helena, Montana, the first of three children. His dad Gil was enlisted in the Montana National Guard training at Fort Lewis Washington for deployment to the Pacific Theatre, leaving Edith (Edgy) to care for Ed during his absence. Upon his return in 1945, Gil, Edgy, and Ed moved to the Warren family ranch near Montana City, until purchasing a hotel in the North Helena valley.
Growing up north of Helena, dad learned the necessity of having “wheels,” especially the motorized ones. Hanging with family and friends at the local garages, and the speedway, located not too far from where they lived, he gained knowledge of mechanical things. “It ain’t gonna fix itself” and “just jump in” was how you learned. His first clunker, a Model A, he got from an old rancher that he was working for. The old rancher said, “get ‘er runnin, an you can take ‘er,” so he did. And it was on from there.
