William Edward McCartin, 98, of Sweet Home passed away Friday, Aug. 7, 2020.
He was born April 10, 1922 in Baltimore, Md. to James and Ruth (Burgee) McCartin.
William generally went by the name of Ed or Edward, but many people just called him Mac.
Mac grew up during the Depression and busied himself doing many of the things poor children did that lived by the train tracks, like throwing rocks at the boxcars as…