Edward "Ed" Alfred Menard

On August 4, 2024 Edward Alfred Menard passed away. It was his 90th birthday. Ed was born in Butte Montana to Martha Williams Menard and Edward Alfred Menard. In his early years Ed assisted in his father’s auto repair garage, the origins of his long love for tinkering with things mechanical.

Ed attended the local Butte schools, graduated from Butte High School, and continued his academic career at the Montana School of Mines in Butte, Montana State University in Bozeman where he received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, and later a masters degree also in electrical engineering from Syracuse University in New York State.

Ed left Montana to work for IBM Corporation in New York and Colorado until his retirement in Colorado where he was residing at the time of his death.

Ed was always in search of adventure in the great outdoors especially if it provided “an adrenalin rush.” from skiing in the Bridger Bowl while attending MSU to later in the mountains of Colorado. He was an avid bicyclist participating three times in Ride the Rockies. He hiked and backpacked the many Colorado peaks, motorcycled in the red rock country of Utah, sailed the Pacific waters of Northwest USA on his uncle’s boat. For many years he enjoyed hiking, camping, and rock scrambling in the Canadian Rockies with his spouse Sharon

It was Sharon’s love of travel that motivated their trips throughout the USA (hiking the Grand Canyon), Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico and to far away places like Europe (Western, Central, Eastern) British Isles, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Russia, the Danube River countries of Austria, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Serbia. Their travels also included Turkey, Greece, Africa, China, India, Bhutan, Japan, Iceland, South America, Australia (Great Barrier Reef), New Zealand (where Ed Bungy jumped) and Antarctica. And now he is on his final journey.

Ed was pre-deceased by his mother, father, three older sisters – Jean, Barbara, Betty. He is survived by his life-long companion Sharon, sons Michael and Sergio and Coco Chanel (a black and white cocker spaniel), along with numerous nieces and nephews.