Bernard Samuel Super

passed away on Saturday, June 18, 2016 at Jefferson Healthcare in Port Townsend, Washington. He was born on November 4, 1935 and was 80 years of age.Bernard was often asked to explain his soft English accent. He replied that he was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, moved with his parents, Rabbi Arthur Saul Super and mother Helen Sarah Berko Super to Leeds and then London, England.During World War II he was evacuated to the countryside growing up in foster homes and boarding schools. He moved once again as an adolescent to Israel where he lived on a Kibbutz.Bernard attended the Technion Israel Institute of Technology (the MIT of Israel graduating with honors in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering in 1963. In 1965 he received a MS with honors and a fellowship in Computer Science and Automatic Control Systems.It was during those years he met his first wife, Dora and became a stepfather to her young son, Yariv. They then had two children, Yael and Boaz. Since Bernard was tluent in French and Hebrew as well as English he worked his way through school supporting his young family as a translator of technical papers. Later he would add German, Spanish, and Italian to his repertoire of languages.He served in the Israeli Navy volunteering in an elite unit (the equivalent of a Navy Seal). In 1966 Bernard left Israel for the United States to work for an American Technology company. He began working for a biomedical instrumentation firm, lntertechnique, SA. based in Plaiser France and Danville, N.J During his working years he most enjoyed his work in developing new technologies and working with Nobel Prize winners in the scientific field. He also enjoyed running and completed thirteen marathons. He loved the arts and was an accomplished writer of plays and short stories and enjoyed drawing and painting as well. His greatest accomplishment however was in music having completed a Symphony. It would honor Bernard if you were to look up his music at the website IMSLP.org where he is listed as Super, Bernard Samuel. Retirement brought some of happiest and most meaningful years of his life. He met his second wife, Sharon England at a ballroom dance class in Seattle. They married in 1989 and enjoyed many happy years together living in Issaquah, downtown Seattle and finally in beautiful Port Ludlow. His ashes are to be scattered at Admiralty Inlet. There will be no memorial or funeral service at his request. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made Chimacum School Music Programs or Shoreline Community College Music Department.One of Bernard's favorite poems was Happy the Man by John Dryden quoted here:Happy the man, and happy he alone,He who can call today his own;He who, secure within, can say,Tomorrow do thy worst, for l have lived today.Be fair or foul or rain or shine,The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are min e.Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.After learning on June 17, 2016 that his symphony "Flourish of Youth" which he spent his retirement years composing had been accepted by the composer's site IMSLP.com Bernard died at peace the next day on June 18, 2016. He is survived by his wife of 27 years, Sharon E. England a daughter, Yael Super and a son, Boaz Super (Susan) and two grandsons, Joshua and Daniel No services are planned per his request. His ashes will be committed to the sea in Admiralty Inlet by family members.If you wish to honor Bernard by listening to some of his music please go to his own composer page at www.IMSLP.com under his name, Super, Bernard Samuel.In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you make a donation in Bernard's memory to one of the following:Shoreline Community College Foundation for Music Scholarships 16101 Greenwood Avenue North Shoreline, WA. 98133 Friends of Chimacum Schools Education Foundation P.O. Box 192 Chimacum, WA. 98325.Please sign the online guest book for the family.Arrangements are pending through Cook Family Funeral Home.