Eric Zorn on The Funeral of Ed Schwartz

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: Fans provide a fitting eulogy at Eddie Schwartz's burial service : -------------------------------------- : Eddie Schwartz, former king of overnight radio in Chicago who died Tuesday at 62, was remembered Friday at a sunny graveside service at Waldheim Jewish Cemetery in Forest Park. : His brother, Hal Ross, read a poem he said he'd once read to Eddie: : Acquainted with the Night : Robert Frost : I have been one acquainted with the night. : I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain. : I have outwalked the furthest city light. : I have looked down the saddest city lane. : I have passed by the watchman on his beat : And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. : I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet : When far away an interrupted cry : Came over houses from another street, : But not to call me back or say good-bye; : And further still at an unearthly height, : O luminary clock against the sky : Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. : I have been one acquainted with the night. : Hal Ross then did something I haven't seen at other memorial services: He read aloud from comment boards attached to recent newspaper stories and blogs. : It made for a heartfelt and utterly appropriate eulogy. : As retired Sun-Times radio/TV columnist Rob Feder said to me afterwards, it was like Eddie was taking phone calls from his listeners one last time. : : (Chicago Tribune)

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