Edward Dornisch, owner of 2 companies
Edward C. Dornisch, 74, of Beaufort, S.C., former owner of two companies in Glassboro, died of complications from a brain tumor Saturday, Feb. 20, at Beaufort Memorial Hospital.
Edward C. Dornisch, 74, of Beaufort, S.C., former owner of two companies in Glassboro, died of complications from a brain tumor Saturday, Feb. 20, at Beaufort Memorial Hospital.
He had lived in Beaufort since selling his firms - a moving company and one that dealt in safes - and moving from Woodbury in 2014.
"His fingerprints are all over Jewelers Row" in Center City Philadelphia, said Larry Schwalb, owner of Houdini Lock & Safe Co. of Philadelphia and Abington.
"He was one of the foundations of high-security safe and vault sales and service in Philadelphia," Schwalb said.
"He worked with us in sales, the rigging, and the service of safes, which are historic in the Philadelphia market."
He added, "It's professionals like Ed that make us as good as we are."
Mr. Dornisch grew up in Beach Haven, N.J., graduated from Beach Haven High School, and, in the year he turned 18, joined the Navy and served as an aviation technician, for a time on the aircraft carrier Randolph.
Mr. Dornisch and his wife, Mildred, known as "Sweetie," married in 1965 and until 2014 owned Henry J. Dornisch Inc., a moving firm founded by his father.
The firm was at Eighth and Bainbridge Streets until the family moved it to Glassboro in 1998, said daughter Kimberly.
"It was moving and hauling" small business equipment, she said, and "it distributed safes."
While continuing the family-named firm, Kimberly Dornisch said, her parents from 1996 to 2014 owned A&B Safe Co., also in Glassboro, which "designed safes and distributed them."
Among his foreign travels, she said, was one to Macedonia, where he visited a company "that made the safes that he designed."
Mr. Dornisch owned a 28-foot sailboat, she said, which he berthed in Chesapeake Bay.
Besides his wife and daughter, Mr. Dornisch is survived by son Scott, a brother, and two granddaughters.
No services are planned.
Donations may be sent to www.woundedwarriorsproject.org.
Condolences may be offered to the family at www.copelandfuneralservice.com.
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