Elwood Edwards, Voice of AOL’s ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Greeting, Dead at 74

Elwood Edwards, the live booth announcer and voice actor behind AOL.com’s “You’ve got mail” alert, died at his New Bern, North Carolina, home on November 5. He was 74. He is survived by his daughter Heather Edwards, brother Bill, and a granddaughter, as well as another daughter, Sallie Edwards, who told the New York Times that complications from a stroke were the cause of his death. In 1989, Edwards’s wife, Karen, a customer-service agent at Quantum Computer Services (later AOL)...