The following remembrance of Ed Endres is reprinted, courtesy of the Courier- Express, 
from the "On the Waterfront" column by Joe Glaser, dated March 23, 1971.

ENDRES GONE
Ed Endres of Grand Island and Forest City, Fla., one of the Niagara Frontier's all-time speedboat racing greats, died early Monday at his Florida home following a lengthy battle with cancer. His passing marks the final chapter in the story of one of the most famous father and son boat racing teams ever to grace this area. A team, incidentally, broken up in 1954 when Ed's son, Al, a world record holder in the E Racing Runabout class, succumbed at the age of 28 to a heart attack following a speedboat regatta staged at Syracuse.
The famous father and son combine whose racing boats included such well known contenders for national honors as the Sliver, Dot-E and Dawn reached its hey day in the early 1950s.
Ed's Grand Island home, garage and boathouse, a short distance above the Grand Isle Marina on the east branch of the Niagara River, served as a meeting place and testing grounds for area boat racers for many years.
The highly-respected and well-beloved senior member of the Endres clan, who celebrated his 70th birthday in mid-March, is credited as doing as much or more for boat racing and the racing gentry in these parts as anyone could possibly have done.
Undeterred by a serious stomach operation in his 50s, which should have ended his boat racing career, Ed was still racing one of his sleek runabouts when he was crowding 60. It was then, after his final speedboat race, that Ed became prominent in the field of harness racing with one of his horses, Culver Pick, a consistent winner.
A member of the Buffalo Launch Club, B&T Power Boat Assn. and the Niagara Frontier Boat Racing Assn., Ed Endres- whose friends are legion- will leave an unreplaceable void in the ranks of "Who's Who" in boating circles in these parts.

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