Edwin Milton "Ted" Halkyard, Jr.

Edwin Milton "Ted" Halkyard, Jr. awakened to a radiant new sunrise on Friday, January 3, 2025. 

Ted was born on July 20, 1934 in Bayside, Queens, a Borough of New York City. His parents were the late Edna Alice Franklin and Edwin Milton Halkyard and he had one sister, the late Helen Rodgers. Ted was educated in New York City public schools and was admitted to Princeton University, Class of 1956. At the age of sixteen, he met the love of his life, Joan. They married after Ted's graduation from college. Following active duty in the U.S. Army Artillery, stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Ted pursued a career in Human Resource Management. 

Four sons: Edwin Milton III, Martin Sherwin, Christopher Mark and Jonathan Scott filled out the family as they moved around the country as Ted's career progressed. During that time, he attended the Harvard Advanced Management program. Ted achieved his goal when he was named as Senior Vice President of Allied Signal Corporation (now known as Honeywell International) at age forty-two. He elected a planned early retirement at age fifty-six and pursued a second career in teaching. This brought Ted and Joan to South Carolina, where he became a distinguished lecturer in Management at the University of South Carolina Graduate School of Business. In the course of his time at the university, Ted taught in an international program in Vienna, Austria. He was deeply touched to be voted by his class as their 'Most Outstanding Faculty Member' and was asked to be the keynote speaker at their graduation. While teaching at USC, Ted and Joan discovered Charleston, where they built a home on the ocean at the Isle of Palms. 

Ted had a variety of interests during the course of his life. He was a 'cradle Episcopalian' and served as Senior Warden of both St. Peter's Church in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey and Grace Church Cathedral in Charleston. Ted's love of music led to serving on the boards of the Newark Symphony in New Jersey, the South Carolina Philharmonic in Columbia, and the Charleston Symphony, where he served as President for a three year term. Ted served as President of the Charleston Education Network, an organization committed to the best interest of all public school children in Charleston. He also served on a variety of other charitable and for-profit boards.

Ted and Joan were fortunate to have shared many adventures together while visiting over one hundred countries, including all seven continents at least twice. Their explorations were largely focused on the natural world and were enhanced by thirty-five years of underwater diving in numerous oceans of the world. However, the most valued gifts in Ted's life were his wife, Joan; his four sons; four daughters-in-law (Karen, Beth, Nicole, and Kari -- all college sweethearts!); thirteen grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. Ted made it clear up until the end of his life just how lucky he always felt. 

His funeral service will be held Saturday, January 25, 2025 in Grace Church Cathedral, 98 Wentworth Street at 11:00 am with a reception to follow. Arrangements by J. Henry Stuhr, Inc. Downtown Chapel. 

Memorials in his name may be made to Grace Church Cathedral, 98 Wentworth Street, Charleston, SC 29401 or to the Bishop Gadsden Employee Appreciation Fund, 1 Bishop Gadsden Way, Charleston, SC 29412.