Earl G. “Red” Condit

Earl G. “Red” Con­dit, 90, of Delaware and for­merly of Sun­bury, passed away Fri­day (June 10, 2011) fol­low­ing a brief ill­ness. This com­mu­nity lost another one of America’s Great­est Gen­er­a­tion. He lived a blessed and active life — in fact, he played a round of golf just 13 days ago.

Earl was born on March 20, 1921 in Con­dit to the late Milo J. and Estella (Baker) Con­dit. A grad­u­ate of Sparta High School in 1939, he entered the U.S. Army in 1942. He was a proud mem­ber of 101st Air­borne Sig­nal Com­pany, par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Rhineland and Cen­tral Europe Cam­paigns of WWII. A farmer in his younger years, he later worked at Nestlé’s and retired from Gen­eral Motors in 1988, where he worked as an engi­neer for 34 years. He enjoyed golf­ing, boat­ing and fish­ing. Earl was an avid horse­man, own­ing and rac­ing sev­eral har­ness horses. Always fun lov­ing, he was a good con­ver­sa­tion­al­ist. A true gen­tle­man, he was a man of integrity and honor. A mem­ber of Sun­bury United Methodist Church, Delaware County Har­ness Horseman’s Asso­ci­a­tion and United States Trot­ters Asso­ci­a­tion. Earl trea­sured his fam­ily, was a par­tic­i­pant in their numer­ous activ­i­ties and was most proud of their accomplishments.

He is sur­vived by his beloved wife of 62 years: Julia F. (Hart­sook), whom he mar­ried Sept. 24, 1948 in Sun­bury; chil­dren, Lynn (Michael) Whet­stone of Lan­caster, Gary (Rita) Con­dit of West­er­ville, Nancy (Jim) Her­bert of West­er­ville; nine grand­chil­dren, Ben­jamin, Amanda, Court­ney, Joel, Kirk, Hilary, Brit­tany, Nick­o­las, Zachary; seven great-grandchildren: Rob­bie, Anna, Shan­non, Jack, Colin, Tay­lor, Avery; sis­ter Verna Mae Belcher of Sparta; nieces, nephews and a com­mu­nity of friends.

He was pre­ceded in death by sis­ters, Vio­let Lee in 2006, Donna Fox in 2000 and broth­ers Eldon in 1978 and Milo in 2007.

Friends may call from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Tues­day at the DeVore-Snyder Funeral Home, Ohio 3 at 61, Sun­bury, where ser­vices will fol­low at 12 p.m. Tues­day with the Rev. Brian Smith offi­ci­at­ing. Bur­ial will fol­low in Tren­ton Ceme­tery with mil­i­tary hon­ors pro­vided by the Delaware County Association.

Memo­r­ial con­tri­bu­tions can be made to: Sun­bury United Methodist Church, 100 W. Cherry Street, Sun­bury, Ohio 43074 or Wil­low­brook Chris­t­ian Vil­lage, 100 Wil­low Brook Way S., Delaware, Ohio 43015.

Con­do­lences may be expressed at snyderfuneralhomes.com

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