Earl Clayton Remen, 92, of Arcadia, FL passed away Sunday May 26, 2013. He was born September 18, 1920 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin the son of Clemons & Delia Remen, brother to siblings Delores, Ken, Dick and Marilyn. He graduated from Logan High School in LaCrosse in the Class of 1939 and joined the Navy as Chief Petty Officer on the USS Melville. The Navy promoted him to battalion commander and sent him to study at Lawrence College in Appleton, WI where he was also president of his Phi Delta Theta fraternity. While at Lawrence College he met the love of his life, Bernice VanOfferen on a blind date. The Navy sent him on for further study at Columbia University. He was in NYC and prior to shipping off to Okinawa he and Bernice married and began their 63 years together. After the war, Earl worked as an Industrial Production Manager, designing feed plants for the Pillsbury Company in Clinton, Iowa and Landmark/ Farm Bureau of Ohio in Columbus Ohio. Earl and Bernice raised three daughters together. They enjoyed many active hobbies, including horses, gardening, sailing, ballroom dancing and many rounds of golf with friends at Sunnybreeze Palms. Earl left this world a better place because of his love, friendship, kindness and integrity, and like the song he so adored, "He did it his way."
He is survived by his three loving daughters, Carol Remen, Pamela Bestic and Holly (Keith) Housman; sisters, Marilyn Brockman and Delores Dacey; 8 grandchildren, 5 great great grandchildren; many friends including loyal neighbors, Brenda and Larry Newman. Proceeded in death by his parents; brothers, Ken and Dick and his beloved Bernice Remen whom he cared for with such devotion.
There will be no local services. The family has requested donations in memory of Earl be made to Tidewell Hospice at tidewell.org.
He is married to Bernice Janet van Offeren.
They got married in the year 1945, he was 24 years old.
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