Dad,
As time goes on I want you to know how much I miss you!!!!
You were always there for the family and community 
I pray for us that we will  all rise to Heaven to be together again
Until that day which only God can pick, I hope we are doing the things as you would have likes us to do. I had a lot of struggles so far this year but you taught me to look at the bright side instead of the dark side of things. Thanks for the lesson I still am trying to service the Earle family name and preserve the good in it. P,S. I am with Deborah taking care of mom, she misses you so much. I know how much you loved her. We miss you !!!!!!! 
Donald Jr.

What a wonderful man--a man among men. Wanting to let  the family know Don Jr. and Debbie and Taisa- we still honor his life and service to all others in his life.

I have many fond memories of Don over the last 61 plus years. When I was a kid Don would let me use his tractor to grade my go-cart track. As time passed I would let Don use my trailer to haul his grain into the grainery. Dad and I spent many weekends hunting pheasants with Don here in the valley. Don, no matter how busy he was always had time to visit when you seen him. Don was salt of the earth and I will miss my friend, but know I will see him again soon!

I wrote one condolence here and it disappeared.  I will try again. 
Don and Taisa Earle were the hub of the wheel comprising our neighborhood off of Trail Ave. in Keizer. We had a little acreage, and they had a huge one across from us . We were young family with little kids and first time with our own land. Their kids and ours and other kids in homes on the spokes of that wheel on a map. Naturally folks were compelled to go on to that house --the hub of the wheel.  Don and Taisa were our mentors somehow. They were kindhearted, generous, welcoming to all the kids 24/7 and Don Earle seemed the strength of that hub seeing him on his land and on his tractor and cutter.  He was wise and very very accomplished. He could do and fix anything--it was just his character and essence--God given. He was the wise man of the neighborhood tribe and shared whatever he could to help out. Taisa was supported so well to do what was her essence--to make safe places for children, see them, talk with them and love on them as they lined up to visit. We will miss Don as much as we all respected and loved him too. Don, it seems, would have it no other way --as a man of values and virtues who believed in following the golden rule for himself and the children.  PS, folks, he built my mother's house next to me and WE would have had No one else to have done such an excellent job. 

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Donald Wayne Earle Sr.

August 26, 1928 – July 31, 2023

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