Edmund Jamison Kauffman, Jr.

Obituary: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/heraldtribune/obituary.aspx?n=edmu...

Edmund Jamison “Ned” Kauffman, 95, formerly of Youngstown, passed away Thursday, April 28, 2011.

He was born in Girard June 12, 1915, to Edmund J. and Mable Griffith Kauffman.

Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by his first wife, Sue Anna Shofstall Kauffman, one of the first volunteers and longtime news magazine editors for the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota; sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Thomas (Marguerite Kauffman); and brother-in-law Philip Shofstall, Okla.

He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and was a Cum Laude BA in Economics from Princeton, class of 1938. Two years ago, he attended the 70th reunion of the class of 1938.

Ned was a radar navigator in the 100th Bomb Group, 350th Bomb Squadron of the Eighth Air Force with the European theater of operations, navigating B-17s. On his final mission, his plane was shot down and he was captured and held prisoner of war by the Germans, spending nearly a year in Stalag Luft III, two weeks after the Great Escape occurred. At the end of the war, Captain Edmund Kauffman settled in Youngstown and was a business owner of Atlas Excelsior.

Ned, along with his first wife, were avid in the dog world, raising, showing, and judging at dog shows, nationally and internationally.

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