Edmund “Ed” Morris Sorenson

MERIDEN, Conn. – Edmund “Ed” Morris Sorenson, 70, passed away on Jan. 8, 2023 at Midstate Medical Center, Meriden, Conn.

Ed was born in Bangor on Oct. 23, 1952 a son of the late Morris and Wilma (Houston) Sorenson.

Growing up, Ed lived in Forest City, Iowa as well as Newport and Norridgewock. He graduated from Skowhegan High School in 1971 and attended Bowdoin College with a four-year degree and two years post graduate work in Biochemistry. While in college, Ed had several part-time jobs including lab assistant at Bowdoin College and Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, as well as summers as a stern man on a lobster boat in South Freeport.

After leaving college, Ed worked many years as a researcher with a number of pharmaceutical companies, a few years in California but mostly on the east coast. In his later years, Ed taught chemistry in several private schools, two years in the U.S. and eight years in China, before retiring.

Ed was an adventurer and a life long traveler, often times independently. In addition to most of the United States and Maritime Canada, Ed traveled to many parts of China while teaching there as well as travel to the mountains of Tibet, safaris in South Africa and many other places too numerous to list. Although he had traveled the world, Ed always looked forward to spending time on the Maine coast.

All that being said, if we had one word to characterize Ed’s life, it would be “books”. Regardless of where he was, Ed would usually be found with a book in hand. Ed leaves a library that would rival many a small town’s library.

He is survived by sisters Bonnie Sorenson (Mark Gauthier) of Manchester by the Sea, Mass., Becky Vigneault (Edward) of Winthrop, brother, Dana Sorenson (Susan) of Oakland, brother-in-law, Robert Buck of Waterbury, Vt.; nephews Erik Henderson, Jonathan Vigneault, Aaron Sorensen, Todd Healy, and Christian Buck, and niece, Heather Calhoun-Ahava.

He was predeceased by sister, Holly Buck; and niece, Wendy Vigneault.

Services will be privately held at the convenience of his family.