Frank Sider, 89, a retired glass foreman, died Sunday, Oct. 1, of heart failure at ManorCare Health Services in Naperville. A foreman at the now-defunct Dearborn Glass Co. in Bedford Park, Mr. Sider and his family moved to Lisle in the early 1950s, which was then a mostly rural area. “Driving is crucial to these older people,” said his daughter, Rose Ann Flowers. “Their life revolved around the invention of the car. My dad was one of the first commuters to Bedford Park. He’d come in the door and he’d say to my mother, `You want to go for a drive?'” After the death of his wife, Valery Adler Sider, in 1973, Mr. Sider moved into an apartment in his daughter’s home in Naperville. Over the years, he was a regular at a local McDonald’s restaurant, meeting his friends for breakfast and discussing the world’s problems, his daughter said. A health nut in his 20s, Mr. Sider rode his bike to the restaurant every day and all over Naperville until he turned 80. “He was just a plain, simple man who worked and lived and was part of a family,” Flowers said. Other survivors include a son, Frank Sider Jr.; a brother, Wallace Styrcula; six grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. A funeral mass will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 36 N. Ellsworth St., Naperville.
