Earle Eric Anton Jansen, (90), of Richmond, Texas passed away peacefully on January 31, 2023. Earle was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Leap Year, February 29, 1932, to Eric and Leah Jansen. He was the sixth out of nine children. Earle met his devoted wife, Phyllis, in Manchester, England where the two were completing their studies in engineering and nursing. They married on Leap Year, February 29, 1960.
Earle immigrated his young family to Flushing, New York in 1966 and settled in Houston, Texas in 1970 where he worked at Fluor Engineers until retirement in 1994. During his tenure with Flour, Earle and his family travelled the world as he worked on international assignments in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia; St. Croix, US Virgin Islands; and Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2003, after the death of his loving wife, Phyllis, he resided with his daughter, Jacqueline, and her husband, Karl, and their daughter Erika in Richmond, Texas, where Erika renamed Earle to become “Poppy,” a name he is mostly identified by today.
Earle had many passions and hobbies in life. He loved engineering and building. Earle built electronic kits that came in the mail from a company called Heath-KIT. Earle made the family television (a huge 1970’s console), a stereo, his first computer and a full-size organ with double keyboard, foot pedals, and sound percussion options for different styles of music. Earle was an accomplished classical pianist and enjoyed the big band era tunes of Engelbart Humperdinck and the Tia Juana Brass.
When Earle’s passion turned to cooking in the 1980’s, Earle quickly renovated their galley size kitchen to a chef’s dream. Earle spent entire weekends cooking pastas from scratch and laying them out to dry around the kitchen. He cooked every cuisine imaginable to perfection. His recipes remain a family treasure.
Earle also loved investments and the stock market. He was very tech savvy in the day when most his peers were not. He had computer programs with analysis of all his transactions. He loved software and compiling financial data. He loved his computer and that passion stayed with him until his final days.
Earle’s favorite passion in life never changed and always remained constant, and that was his catholic religion. Earle prayed daily without fail. He attended daily mass until the last few years of his life. Every day he prayed morning prayers, night time prayers, mealtime prayers, prayers before he started his car engine. His rosary was always with him. In later years, his family put a tracking device on the rosary after it had gone missing several times. The rosery would always show up after prayers to St. Anthony, the patron saint of lost goods. He watched the catholic channel on television regularly. The day he passed he had been watching the catholic channel all day.
Earle is deeply missed by his daughter, Jacqueline Breckon; son-in-law, Karl Breckon; granddaughter, Erika Breckon; son, Eric Jansen; daughter-in-law, Alicia Jansen, and niece, Mary Kappel and her family, husband, David Kappel, and children: Maggie, Patrick and Bridget Kappel and his beloved caretaker, Karla Quinteros.
He is survived by brother and sister-in-law Joseph Jay and Anne Jansen, (London, England); sister Denia Abeyasinghe (London, England); sisters-in-law, Vera Jansen, (London, England) Ethel Walsh,(County Mayo, Ireland) Kathleen Walsh, (Roscommon, Ireland) Helen Caufield, (Chicago, Illinois)and Anne O’Brien (Chicago, Illinois).
Earle is preceded in death by his wife Philomena (Phyllis) Walsh Jansen; brothers: Hantley Jansen, Thorald Jansen, Royale Jansen and Barney Jansen; and sisters: Irma Jones and Leona Perumal.
Earle will be laid to rest at a private family service on February 10th, 2023
In lieu of flowers donations made be made to Catholic Charities.
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