Melody Lacy remembers weather expert Edd Pearce

Edd Pearce, a son to Edward and Stella, a brother to Sally, a husband to sweet Rosemary, a father to Eddie and Shawn, a friend to anyone he met, but most of all, a follower of Jesus! And he deserves to be remembered.
If you’re not visiting the elderly, you’re missin’ out! They are full of knowledge and just want someone to talk to and listen. And yes, I know I am a terrible listener. I’m a talker! And I know I am always in a hurry. But just a few minutes can make their day and yours.
(I am not a writer, so if you are an English teacher, you may not want to read this, because there may be run-on sentences and punctuation mistakes...)
I met Edd and Rosemary through my sister-in-law, Michelle. We all went to church together at Fulton Bridge Baptist Church. I knew Edd for around 28 years, but most of you knew him his entire life. What a blessing!
The following are a few things about Edd some may not know.
Back in the day, Edd could throw a football the length of a football field. He exercised so much everyday, I called him the “Bionic Man.”
For those who don’t know, he would do thousands of rollouts. He had a handmade contraption consisting of a wheel with a bar through the middle of it. The wheel might have been an old lawnmower wheel.
He’d start on the floor on his knees, holding the bar covered with duct tape, and he’d  stretch his body out and then roll back in.
He brought his rollout gear to our office [Marion County Engineer’s Office—Melody is the secretary], and the person who tried it out thought they might need an ambulance, which made everybody else too scared to try.
While exercising, Edd would listen to various music, including the Eagles. Rosemary would flip the cassette tape for him when she heard the music stop. That’s right. A cassette tape!
He would walk 12 miles or more five to six days of the week. You might see him out in town as early as 1:30 or 2 in the morning—getting those miles in.
He could tell you how many days, hours, minutes and seconds old you were in less than a minute without a calculator. He loved anything weather-related and kept the rainfall and temperature in our area for over 50 years. He could tell you what the weather was on a Saturday in 1950 or on a Tuesday in 1970. He was a numbers man and a weather man.
If your child was recognized in the newspaper for anything sports-related, he had it memorized. He would mention Harry Holloway and his son. He said, “You know Harry played at UNA, and his son is good at sports, too.”
Several years ago, he recognized one of Rosemary’s home health nurses and remembered all of her stats while she played numerous sports at Winfield.
The Bible... He knew his Bible, and he knew the Lord! He said, “I remember you and Johnny Mack everyday in prayer.” Every day y’all! He said, “I never forget!” What a blessing to have someone who prays for you. Remember, it’s the most important thing we can do for anyone.
Sometimes, he would rattle off something that was way over my head. He would say, “Do you believe me?” And I would say, “If you say so, Edd.”
Edd and Rosemary were fine Christian friends, who were more like family. I would tell him I loved him, and he would say, “I love you much, much!”
Tell people you love them. Family or friend—let them know you love them. Even though they may know it—it’s nice to hear it. Say it and show it!
I will end with something that Edd had me type out for him back in July of 2006. This is on being born again.
“Let me state no one had ever been born again literally,” Edd said. “So what is the Biblical saying spoken to none other than the erudite Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews?
“He is mentioned only in the book of John (five times). Did he understand this saying? He said, ‘How can a man be born again?’ You could be born again 10,000 x 10,000 x 10,000 and still not be born again. All this would be of the flesh.
“You must be born from above not from below. This abstruse saying has perplexed many a person. Yes, even some preachers, who present a plan and not the Lord Jesus Christ.
“So me, you or anyone you can think of, should put their total confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone, for this birth. It is His finished work and not ours.
“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Titus 2:13.”
Let’s all slow down a little and stop and sit a spell. We may learn something.
Remembering Edward Leslie Pearce Jr. Born Oct. 11, 1935, and went to Heaven on Jan. 13, 2026.
(Note: Also known as “Eddie,” Pearce was also beloved by the staff of the former WERH Radio Station in Hamilton, where every DJ started their day by finding his extremely detailed weather report slid inside the station’s front doors—no matter how early they arrived to start their shift. His regular reports on weather, including temperature highs, lows, averages and rainfall amounts, also appeared for decades in the pages of the Journal-Record. On Jan. 28, 2017, Pearce, then 82, marked 55 years as a volunteer with the National Weather Service—which he quickly calculated as 20,089 days.)