Ken Osmond Passes
 Kenneth Charles Osmond June 7, 1943 – May 18, 2020 |
As your typical white anglo saxon protestant brat running around with others of my species I naturally gravitated to all things familiar and I think that June, Ward, Wally, and the Beaver were right up my alley with a lifestyle I thought to be similar to my own however disparate and I claimed them as such.
Of course, the antics of the child Theodore were a comparison in cultures and there were the required foils, namely Lumpy Rutherford and Eddie Haskell ... and I took them all in stride during the endless hours I spent before the tube suspending reality in half hour increments.
Lumpy passed a while back after a post television career as a stock broker. It was said that his advice regarding fiscal instruments were golden by several of his surviving cast mates.
Today we learn that Eddie has passed.
Ken Osmond was the actor who portrayed Eddie on the sitcom and he was the perfect snide smart aleck who alas became typecast by the role and found obtaining acting work afterwards difficult.
I encountered him one day in the mall at Huntington Beach, California right past the Orange Julius and he looked like an adult version of Eddie.
We spoke briefly and had a laugh about the old days and what it was like then compared to "now".
He always triggers pleasant memories due to that brief interaction at the mall that day and I am sorry to hear of his passing.