Edward B. "Ned" Kormann, a retired Verizon marketing manager and an inveterate outdoorsman, died Friday of congestive heart failure at Wicomico Nursing Home in Salisbury. The former Annapolis resident was 92.
The son of Edward Louis Kormann, an insurance salesman, and Ethel Haines Kormann, a homemaker, Edward Bruce Kormann was born in Baltimore and raised on The Alameda.
After graduating in 1940 from Polytechnic Institute, he went to work for the old Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.
Drafted in 1943 into the Army, he initially worked as a telephone and telegraph splicer before he was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division. Trained as a paratrooper, he served in the European Theater until he was discharged in 1946 with the rank of technical sergeant.
He returned to C&P, and taking advantage of the G.I. Bill, earned a bachelor's degree in 1957 in business administration from what is now Loyola University Maryland.
Mr. Kormann worked in C&P's marketing department and for successor companies including Bell Atlantic, which is now Verizon. He retired in 1985.
He was a member of the American Legion, VFW and the Rockawalkin Ruritan.
A Salisbury resident since 1967, Mr. Kormann was a hunter, fisherman and golfer.
He was a communicant of St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church, 535 Riverside Drive, Salisbury, where a Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Thursday.
Mr. Kormann is survived by his wife of 65 years, the former Rita Frances Barrow; two sons, Kurt B. Kormann of Panama City, Fla., and Eric Z. Kormann of Thorndike, Maine; five grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.