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Memories and Condolences
for Peter EARLE
21 Entries
Donna Aird
July 11, 2024
We met 34 years ago when we were neighbours on Pearl Street in Burlington. We were friends for a short time. We lost track of each other until I saw his facebook page and sent a message asking how he was doing all of these years later. He responded and asked me to lunch at the golf club in NOTL and for a ride in his volvo? He loved that car. From October 2021 until mid March 2022 we spent every weekend together. We talked and laughed for hours about anything and everything over glasses of his favourite wine (now mine) J. Lohr. After many years of living on my own, I attempted to cook for him. After numerous kitchen meltdowns, we decided I should stay out of the kitchen.
We walked around NOTL in the snow and we drove around the entire area playing his 1960's music. He brought a huge, very dry tree home for Christmas 2021. My job was to trim it while he was at the store. Many of the decorations fell off within minutes of being placed. I replaced those ornaments every time one fell off as the pine needles dropped the entire Christmas Season. Our goal was to keep the tree going until New Years Day. By then the tree was standing almost completely naked but we had reached our goal. It was the best Christmas and New Years that I can remember.
Beginning a relationship during a pandemic was probably not a good idea but it seemed like a great idea at the time. The pandemic was taking a toll on both of us but he also had his stores to worry about. His level of stress was high and he needed to focus on his business. So, by the beginning of April 2022 we had parted ways.
Peter was an honest, intelligent, interesting, business savvy man and a true gentleman. I remember how much he loved his position at Dofasco. He loved Halley's and his staff/friends. He brought his many years of business experience, his communication skills, love of people and his excellent taste in mens' fashion to Halley's and made it his own. He put his heart and his soul into it. He was so excited to share photos of his menswear purchases after what I called his buying sprees. Peter James (from a story about wearing a bow tie when he was a child) and I made each other laugh....something we both needed during the pandemic. I am so thankful to have been fortunate enough to meet him again after so many years.
We shared a great deal in a very short period of time and I cared for him very much. I have nothing but happy memories of our time together. There was one thing he did that I never understood. Thirty plus years ago he wore boat shoes 'sans' socks. Nothing wrong with that. Thirty plus years later he was still wearing shoes without socks.....in the winter....in the snow... but it was what he chose to do and not up for discussion.
Peter James Earle was one of a kind. I am happy to be one of many whose lives he touched.
Frank Sherman
June 15, 2024
I wanted to share condolences with Peter and share many fond memories with him working on many projects for many years at Dofasco. We had wonderful times working together and I shall always miss him ...
Ross Shepherd
June 12, 2024
So sad to hear of the loss of Peter.
Ross and Bonnie Shepherd
Nicolette Novak
June 11, 2024
It was with great sadness that I learned of Peter's struggles. Fraser and family, please accept my heartfelt condolences on this untimely loss. Peter was a charming and engaging chap, robbed of a happy life. With fondness and in sympathy...Nicolette Novak
susan thornham
June 9, 2024
We will miss our Peter...our dear cousin with panache and style. May you be at peace and communicating with ease!
Bill & Tess Stafford
June 7, 2024
We send our deepest condolences to Peter's family & friends.
We will miss him, he was a very vibrant person and most interesting. I had the greatest conversations with Peter, deep and thought provoking, I will miss that. We met Peter through our business, and soon became friends, he and my husband shared the love of Peter's Volvo and my husband Bill was thrilled to maintain it for him and take that extra long test drive just to make sure it was perfect!
Peter definitely had a quick wit and brilliant sense of humor to go along with his stylish flare.
Peter was one of a kind, a sincerely caring man, and Bill & I will miss him a great deal.
I told Peter we will raise our glass and toast him often and we will do just that.
We are grateful for the friendship we shared, and were happy to have know him
Rest in peace our friend
Bill & Tess Stafford
Jamie Sherman
June 6, 2024
I have fond memories of Peter, I was honoured to know him. He had a unique mixture of humour and confidence and will be greatly missed.
Bob Beckerson and Theresa Lavigne
June 6, 2024
RIP our friend. Thinking of your family and loved ones. You were a lot of fun and always had something different to say or do in your intelligent mind others may not have thought. Your comments and how your final moments were spend was brilliant. We will miss you.
Jackie
June 6, 2024
Some people enter our lives leaving without an impact
Others enter our lives and remain in our hearts and memories forever
Roy Charles Leggat
June 6, 2024
Rest in peace Peter. So many fond memories from our days back at Nelson High School. A great friend and a wonderful person. We will miss you dearly.
Roy and Patty Leggat
Diane Wilson
June 5, 2024
My deepest sympathy to Peter and his family. He was a pleasure to work with through the years.
Sharon Langsford
June 5, 2024
Rest in peace Peter So many fond memories from our years working together!
Sharon Langsford
rick pitts
June 5, 2024
I shed a tear as I write this. Tears of joy and sadness. Joy over the many memories we shared over the years. Sadness that I have lost my best friend.
Peter and I have known each other for sixty years, from high school to the present. We both knew life from both sides. Up and down over the years.
In every case, Peter supported me over the years.
The last time we saw Peter was March 16, 2024. He was paralyzed from head to toe, his speech was gone and communications were difficult, to say the least. His mind was still crisp and direct. He knew what was coming and he had prepared for it. ALS had done its job.
As we say our goodbyes, we want to send our deepest condolences to his family and friends.
Goodbye Peter, my dear old friend.
Rick Pitts and Mary Johnson
David Moorcroft
June 5, 2024
The world lost one of its finest souls, and I lost a wonderful friend, when Peter passed away yesterday. My friendship with Peter went back to the late 1980s when we as PR people met at an event representing our perspective companies (Dofasco and RBC). It resulted in the beginning of a long friendship, which a few year's later helped me get through one of the most difficult periods in my life when I was going through a divorce and needed a place to stay. Peter insisted it be with him, and he supported me through several difficult months thereafter. We remained very good friends, and spent many dinners and lunches together over the years, and on occasion a few too many cocktails!
Peter had an infectious sense of humour and wit, that made him great fun to be with. He was also a caring and generous person. And he was a great communicator and PR man.
He will be fondly remembered by many, and missed by everyone who enjoyed his company.
So long, my friend. You may be gone, but your impact will remain forever.
Condolences to all Peter's family and friends.
Ron Dennis
June 5, 2024
We hit it off from the day we met in the mid 1970s. He loved life, laughter, his family and his friends. He was a talented corporate communicator and on the side, an automotive gearhead. They broke the mold.
Tony E. Wojciechowski
June 5, 2024
Peter was a friend and mentor. Most of all Peter was a saint among sinners in the time we spent together. As a person he was most intelligent and skilled in making applesauce from rotten apples produced by others daily in his life's work. Most of all he was a man of character in our relations and I consider a life brother! his favorite lesson to me was a company must own the message or others will! May Jesus meet you and welcome you home my friend! You were and are a special person I have meet non better in life's varied travels.
Tony E. Wojciechowski --(CHRO)- HD-Hyundai USA
Peter Johnson
June 5, 2024
I knew Peter as a teenager when our respective families were living on Monica Cr., Burlington. We went to Nelson High School. After high school we moved on but I saw him again in the mid-eighties at a Nelson reunion organized in Burlington by him and, I think, Rick Pitts. Peter was a good guy and a pleasure to be around. I do remember Peter as a teenager being well dressed and, if memory serves me correctly, he worked part time at a men's clothing store in Burlington. His transition to owning Halley's men's clothing stores after working from Dofasco for 30 years seems like a natural move. My sympathies to Peter's family and friends. I'm sure he will be missed.
Dailen Keyes
June 5, 2024
Peter was a genuine and sincere friend and customer who truly cared and wanted the best for everyone he came in contact with. Great sense of humour and always had a smile on his face. He will always be remembered as to where I bought my father-of-the-bride suit for my daughter´s wedding and the care he took in making sure it looked perfect. Peter, you are already missed!
Mario Garbin
June 5, 2024
Peter lived his life on his terms. He was initially a client who became a friend. He was an influence in my life in a good way we shared many golf trips and dinners. He had great instincts and was successful in his pursuits. He was unique. Rest in peace Peter.
Judy Tucker (Dawe)
June 5, 2024
Our special memories help us cope and I have some pretty great ones. Remembering you today and always.
Love to your family & friends.
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