Ed Asplundh

Edward K. Asplundh, 88, a businessman who led his family’s tree-service business and worked with numerous local hospitals to improve health care in his community, died Thursday, Dec. 31 2020, at Abington Memorial Hospital of complications related to coronary artery disease. Born in Philadelphia in 1932, Mr. Asplundh graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1954 with a degree in accounting. During his time in college, he served in the Air Force ROTC and entered the Air Force as a second lieutenant in 1955. Mr. Asplundh spent three years as a pilot, flying out of bases in Tucson, Ariz., San Angelo, Texas, and Dover. After he returned to the Philadelphia area in 1958, Mr. Asplundh began working for the Asplundh Tree Expert Co., a family-owned pruning business for utilities founded by his father and uncles in 1928. He served as president of the company, which is based in Willow Grove, from 1982 to 1992. In addition to his daughter Jacqueline, Mr. Asplundh is survived by his wife, Gwendolyn; three other daughters, Jill, Barbara, and Bethany; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; a sister, Emily Jane Lemole, and a brother, Carl Asplundh Jr.