Dozens gathered Saturday afternoon at the Barnegat Light Historical Museum to honor accomplished artist, educator and gardener Edwin Joseph Heitman – a guy to whom the old epithet applied: To know him was to love him.
LASTING LEGACY: Those assembled at the Barnegat Light Museum watch a video that was made for Heitman’s 90th birthday, in 2013. (Photo by Sal Saia)
They shared photos, told anecdotes and ate chocolate cake.
Heitman died Sept. 7, just days before his 98th birthday. As his summer neighbor and friend of 40 years, Mary Jane Saia explained, Heitman’s family had laid him to rest last month, but his Island friends wanted to do something special to memorialize him.
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