Eric Stephen Buhayar

Eric Stephen Buhayar

Eric Stephen Buhayar was born in Rome, Italy in 1918.  An only child, he was reared partly in England and partly in Greece. He Attended Athens College, a British secondary school in Athens, Greece and then earned a degree in Electrical Engineering from University College of the University of London. 

English was his first language, but he became proficient in Greek and served in the British Army in Greece during World War II carrying out covert missions with the Greek Resistance Fighters against the occupying German forces. 

He met his future wife, Ero Nicolaidou, during the war and when it ended, he headed to South Africa where he put his engineering skills to use.  Ero arrived in South Africa by freighter two years later, after two years of undergraduate and graduate studies on scholarship in the United States. They were married that afternoon! They lived in South Africa for some years where their son, Alex, was born. They then moved to Montreal, Canada where their daughter, Philippa, was born and after a year or so immigrated to the United States, eventually settling in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. 

Eric worked for the Scott Paper Company as an engineer till his retirement.  He invented many machines and loved what he did every day. He designed and built furniture, was an avid tennis player and traveler. He also designed the vacation home in the Greek Peloponnese where he and Ero spent their summers for many years.

When Eric and Ero moved to Kendal at Longwood, Eric took up residence in the Wood Shop where he fixed everything from toasters to clocks to scooters and everything in between!

Eric is predeceased by his wife of sixty-nine years, and survived by his children, Alex Buhayar and Philippa Anderson and a bevy of grand and great-grandchildren.       

Services and interment will be private.

Arrangements by DellaVecchia, Reilly, Smith & Boyd Funeral Home, Inc West Chester 610-696-1181 www.DellaFH.com