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Bryant Andrews




Bryant Andrews passed away at home surrounded by his family on Saturday, June 29th after a long and difficult battle with Parkinson’s Disease. 

Bryant was born to Edith and F. Emerson Andrews in Tenafly New Jersey in 1938. He split his young life between Tenafly, NJ and summers spent at his ancestral home in Isle La Motte, VT where there was much swimming, boating and adventuring with his brothers and cousins. Always both technical and curious, Bryant graduated from building simple crystal sets so he could listen to radio programs after bedtime to becoming a ham radio operator, talking to other enthusiasts around the world.

Bryant followed several generations of his family to attend Cornell University, where he pursued his interests in Engineering. Three years in, he decided he understood Engineering well enough, but didn’t understand English, so he took another two years and graduated with a major in English. 

After graduation he moved to CT where he combined the two as a technical writer for Pratt & Whitney. There, his interests turned to computation, and the possibilities offered by the then recently introduced desktop terminals and the desktop computers that followed them. He developed several office automation tools including an interoffice intranet and an email system decades before they were commonplace. As a bachelor, he received many a home-cooked meal from friends and neighbors by applying his technical prowess to fixing clocks, radios, and televisions. 

After approximately 20 years at Pratt & Whitney, Bryant followed his dream to start his own business and launched Integrated Custom Software, creating software that continues to be used all over the world today.

Bryant moved to Columbia shortly after arriving in CT, a town chosen for its lake where he could sail his sailboat and a location which meant that he would never have to commute with the sun in his eyes. In his early years in Columbia, he was an active fixture in town and regional politics. 

Bryant was also an avid pilot and was perhaps happiest well above the earth in his little green Taylorcraft. It was this that he missed most towards the end. Bryant was also a great lover of music who had a naturally musical ear that allowed him to play almost anything by ear on the piano or organ. Until relatively recently, you could still hear the reedy tones of his Esty pump organ drifting out over the lake on quiet summer nights. 

He met the love of his life and unwavering companion in September of 1973 and they were married the very next summer. His death was just 6 days before their 50th wedding anniversary. They have had many adventures together - raising their two children, starting their company and exploring the world. 

Bryant was brilliant, incredibly generous, kind, unbelievably loyal, and very funny to those who understood his dry eccentric wit. He lived by an ethos of leaving the world a little better than he found it, and often went out of his way to give others a leg up. 

He is survived by his wife, Betsy Power Andrews, his son Christopher Andrews, daughter-in-law Kris Nadeau Andrews, and grandson Cole Emerson Andrews, his daughter Sue Andrews and granddaughter Leyna Violet Andrews. He is also survived by his brother Peter Andrews and a collection of nephews and nieces. He was so well loved and will be very sorely missed every day.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Michael J. Fox foundation (https://www.michaeljfox.org/) to fund Parkinson’s research. 

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