Edwin Lee Dean Edwin Lee Dean, age 92 of Hurley, Missouri, passed away Thursday, September 13, 2012, at the Ozark Regional Healthcare Center in Crane, Missouri. He was born on August 12, 1920, to Albert and Elsie Barnett Dean in Spring Creek Valley, north of Hurley where he resided his entire life. A 1938 graduate of Hurley High School, Edwin volunteered for the U.S. Army in 1941. In June, 1942, when then Major William O. Darby called for volunteers to man the newly authorized First Ranger Battalion...