 Formerly very active in his community, for reasons of health he moved to Utah in 2008 to be closer to his family.He died of natural causes in Utah on August 19, 2009 at the age of 104.Edward Rondthaler was the son of Howard Rondthaler, a Moravian bishop and president of Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and his wife Katharine Boring, the daughter of a Philadelphia pharmacist.