Edward Leonard “Skip” Pollard

PALERMO – Edward Leonard “Skip” Pollard passed away at home on Aug. 6, 2024, after a long illness.

He was born April 3, 1949 in Providence R.I., a son to Edward Sr. and Helen (Dwyer) Pollard. After high school he attended North Eastern University X-Ray program through Roger Williams hospital in Providence, R.I. At this time he joined the Rhode Island National Guard as a medic, training in California. Ed stayed with the guard for about four years.

He worked at Roger Williams hospital as a special procedures technologist from 1968 until 1973, when he became chief technologist at Newport Hospital in Newport, R.I. This is where he met his wife, Anna. They married in May 1976 and moved to the family farm, here in Palermo. They led the “Good Life “: garden, horse, cow, pigs and chickens.

Skip was the proud and loving father to two wonderful children, Edward III, and Allison. For a few years, he would travel every other week to Rhode Island to work for a mobile x-ray service. In 1980, the farm house burned down, and Skip went into the woods, cut logs, and in three years had built a new home. He worked cutting fire wood to sell, hauling gravel, and trucking potatoes from the county to New York City, N.Y.

In 1991, he returned to the Radiology profession and worked at Kennebec Valley Medical Center and Maine Mobile MRI, until 2001 when he suffered a stroke. Paralyzed in his right side, he was still able to walk so he went back to the woods and cut his own firewood. With help he added two decks to his home. He built a slide in camper and a Bucket-T hot rod. (Did a few drag races with it and won).

Skip was adventurous, he was a skier, scuba diver, learned to fly a plane, and crossed this country twice on his Harley Davidson. His greatest joys in this world were his two grandchildren, Scarlett May Pollard and Ella Marie Murphy. No matter how bad he was feeling these two girls brought light into his life.

Skip was predeceased by his grandparents; his parents Edward Sr. and Helen; and his nephew, Isaac J. Pollard.

He is survived by his loving wife, Anna; his son, Edward III and partner Nancy Crockett, daughter, Allison and husband Mark Murphy; his brother, Wayne Pollard and wife Margie, his brother, Jerry Pollard and sister-in-law Stephanie Pollard; and nieces Kelly and Lindsey.

A celebration of life will be held on Saturday, Aug. 24 at 11 a.m. at the Palermo Christian Church.

Memories and condolences may be shared at ripostafh.com

In lieu of flowers, donations could be made to the Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care.