AUBURN – Edwin R. Michniewich, 79, of 54 Nottingham Road, Auburn, died at his home on Sunday, May 11.

He was born in Biddeford on June 9, 1928, the son of Stephen and Felicia Rzeczycki Michniewich. Educated in Biddeford, he was a graduate of Biddeford High School, and later earned a B.A. in music from Boston University, a B.A. in law from Portland School of Law, and a master’s in law from Temple University.

A U.S. Army veteran, he attended West Point, and was honorably discharged in 1953. On Aug. 20, 1955, he married the former I’lona Kaminski in Biddeford. He was a lawyer by trade, but a musician at heart, and played violin for the Boston Symphony Orchestra for several years in the late 1950s.

Another of his hobbies and enjoyments was the raising, training and showing of American Saddlebred horses in Kentucky, and in the national horse show circuit. A Mason, he was a member of the Alfred, Maine Fraternal Lodge of A.F. & A.M.

Survivors include his wife of Auburn; a brother, Vincent and wife, Anita, of Portsmouth, N.H.; a sister, Angelina Sullivan of Devon, Conn.; many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and nephews; and great-great-nieces and nephews.

Besides his parents, he was predeceased by two sisters, Janice M. Chick and her husband, Marland and Philomena Mininni and her husband, Hormidas (“Mike”); a great-nephew, Kenneth Chick; and a brother-in-law, James Sullivan.