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Earle Bowen Rider
June 26, 1924 - October 25, 2015
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<div itemprop="description">RIDER...... <br /> <br />The Engineer and the Life Well-Built: <br /> <br />EARLE BOWEN RIDER, 1924 - 2015 <br /> <br />As he&rsquo;d tell you the minute he met you, EARLE RIDER was an electrical engineer at Northern Electric. But Earle was also an engineer by vocation. After studying for 91 years, he worked out the calculus of making things &ldquo;come out just right&rdquo;: the applied mathematics of a happy life. <br /> <br />Earle measured success in dogs, children, and grandchildren; He measured time in beer. He valued golden summer corn on the cob -- butter dripping off your chin -- over real gold. A good golf swing at Summit, building a tree fort for the kids by the lake, a bowl of chocolate ice cream, a family barbecue on the patio, a medium-rare steak, serving his country in WWII, &ldquo;hurtin&rsquo; music&rdquo;, growing summer tomatoes, and the hundreds of conversations with &ldquo;Red&rdquo; and the neighbours around the kitchen table seemed to withstand age and weather better than any skyscraper or telephone network. <br /> <br />Earle-the-engineer counted in laughter. He tallied in people. <br /> <br />Predeceased by his wife of 60 years, Hilary Megan, and daughter, Valerie, who kept him close to her until the very end. His taxi cab car and knee socks are missed by his children, Cindy, Mark (Maureen), and Laura (Bob). &quot;Us&quot; grandkids remember hours around the table at Sheldrake, with the love and acceptance of all our friends and partners, and cheese and crackers waiting. Eight great-grandkids can still laugh at dancing around the living room in G-G's big black shoes. <br /> <br />He walked with us on the beach in Oahu, road tripped with us to Florida, let us look at (not drive) the Jag, and cheered at our graduations. He waited in the kitchen in early mornings at Sheldrake, until a little bedhead rambled down to ask him to &ldquo;Make a bacon, grandpa!&rdquo; <br /> <br />In the final months, one of his care workers, Penny, took him to the ocean. He surveyed the shoreline. <br /> <br />&ldquo;Who made all this?&rdquo; <br /> <br />Still calculating, appraising, assessing. Who made all this? <br /> <br />The engineer has gone, family. <br /> <br />But look at what he encouraged us to make. <br /> <br /> <br />Funeral at 4 p.m. Tuesday, October 27, 2015, in the Windsor United Church, 613 King Street, Windsor, with the Rev. Bill Gibson officiating. <br /> <br />Services arranged by Lindsay&rsquo;s Windsor Funeral Home, 902-798-2232, P.O. Box 2218, Windsor, B0N 2T0 <br /> <br />To add your condolences, click on &quot;Condolences&quot;. <br /> <br /></div>