Edward Charles Dreyer, born July 10th, 1951 to Kathleen and Harold Dreyer, was raised to be a proper Catholic boy. Unfortunately, it didn’t take.
He had four siblings, Barb Severin, Denny Kidwiler, Rob Dreyer, and Mike Dreyer. Ed was privileged to have eight happy days in his life – four marriages and four divorces. He proudly served his country in Vietnam, until his honorable discharge in 1974. While serving in Vietnam, he received a care package from his aunt Bonnie Dreyer every week. Shortly following his return, he married his first wife, Denise Davis, and fathered two children, Becky Hembrough and Joshua Dreyer.
Finding that married life suited him just fine, Edward went on to marry a second time to Jo Linda Gerhauser, and had his third child, Dakota Joe. Upon the dissolution of that marriage, Edward tried his hand at professional gambling for a while and trained horses in northern Nevada for approximately ten years. He finally returned to his hometown of Winner, South Dakota and worked for the family business, Dreyer Trucking, avoiding the DOT and driving away from the police at every opportunity. Depending on how you count, he then married his third or fourth wife, Shirley Whittaker.
After his final marriage, he began dating his last life partner, Lisa Faldalen, who dodged the bullet of being his fourth or fifth wife. Edward’s door was always open to friends and family. He didn’t always have a lot, but what he had, he was happy to share. In the last years of his life, he was very proud to attend his son Dakota’s college graduation and his marriage to Alana Dreyer.
A lifelong conservative, Edward enjoyed spirited debates with his liberal friends. When Kenny Weiland tried to put a yard sign supporting his Democrat brother in Ed’s yard, he told him if that sign went in his grass, Kenny would be dead to him. He took great pleasure in needling his liberal niece, Cheyenne Leigh, and his cousin, Cliffy Dreyer.
Edward passed peacefully in his sleep on March 20th, 2017.
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