Lifeguards, swimmers, bikers, remember retired lifeguard, teacher Ed Nelson [PHOTOS]
Ed Nelson’s fellow lifeguards, fellow members of the South Bay Wheelmen, fellow Los Angeles Peninsula Swimmers and former Adams Middle School students held an early morning “Weed Wackers” bike ride ride and then swam and paddled out at Torrance Beach for a scattering of his ashes in the sea. Two weeks ago, the 76-year-old retired lifeguard completed the Dwight Crum Two Mile Swim, from the Hermosa Beach to the Manhattan Beach pier, and was heading toward shore when he fell unconscious. On shore, lifeguards performed CPR and on the way to Little Company of Mary Medical Center Manhattan Beach paramedics were successful in restarting his heart. But he never regained consciousness and died two days later. Nelson was the patriarch of a lifeguard family. He became a lifeguard in 1960 and manned a lifeguard tower until just two summers ago. His son Eric is a lifeguard captain, his daughter-in-law Heidi a recurrent lifeguard. His daughter Jennifer was a Redondo Beach pool lifeguard and her husband Dave Shenbaum is a recurrent lifeguard and Manhattan Beach fire fighter. Heidi and Eric’s two oldest children, Taylor and Kalani, are Junior Lifeguards. Prior to the Pier to Pier Swim, Heidi and…
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