A recent obituary didn’t get quite the attention we thought it deserved, so we wanted to talk a bit about the recent death of Ed Fike. To a lot of present-day Nevadans, you might say, Who? For those who have been around here a while—and those, like me, who spent a lot of time in politics—the name mattered a lot.Merlin “Ed” Fike was born in Missouri in 1925. After serving in the Marines during World War II, he moved to Nevada. He started Lawyers Title of Las Vegas and Nevada Escrow Service. He also went into politics.
