John Edgar (Ed) Schmutzer, age 64, passed away on Saturday, March 31, 2012. He was preceded in death by his parents, Al and Rowena Schmutzer of Sevierville. Ed graduated from Sevier County High School and the University of the South in Sewanee, TN. He obtained his law degree from the University of Virginia and attended Keble College of Oxford University in England. Ed was a combat veteran having served as a Captain with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam 1971-1972. He was an Eagle Scout with Sevierville Troop 110, a member of the Knoxville Opera Guild, the Scottish Society of Knoxville, the Sons of the Revolution, the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, and a life-long member of the First United Methodist Church in Sevierville. Ed recently became a member of the St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral in Knoxville. After a brief stint in private practice in Nashville, he became Assistant U.S. Attorney in Knoxville, where he served for over 30 years. He is survived by his two children, John Schmutzer, Anne Chandler Lattimore and husband John Lattimore; brothers, Bill and Al and wife Cheri; nieces, Jeannie Machon, Ann Geraci, Elizabeth Febo; nephew, Charles; several grandnieces and grandnephews; former wife, Susan Schmutzer and special friend, Debbie Dalton.