Eleanor TALLMADGE

TALLMADGE, Eleanor
Eleanor Barbara Carpenter Tallmadge passed away on June 29, 2011 in Port Royal, South Carolina. She was the daughter of the late Thomas and Lillian Carpenter. She was born in Glendale, California on March 15, 1917. On March 14, 1941 she married Edward Tallmadge of Unionville, CT. She was predeceased by her parents, her husband, and three brothers, John, David and Roy. She is survived by her brother, Ed Carpenter and his wife Connie; children, David of New Mexico, Tom and his wife, Joyce, of South Carolina, and daughter, Barbara Winslow and husband Skip, of Norridgewock, Maine. She leaves behind grandchildren: Michael, Tom, Hope, Sam, Steve, Ashley and Ben, four great-grandchildren; and many special nieces and nephews. Eleanor graduated from New Britain Teacher's College in 1939. She taught schools in Burlington, Canton and Granby Ct. for a total of 27 years. She was a lifelong member of the Grange. She was a communicant of Trinity Episcopal Church of Collinsville CT., St. Helena's Church in Beaufort, S.C. and Skowhegan Episcopal Church in Maine. She played the piano and organ for Canton Baptist Church and several nursing homes in Conn. Eleanor began an ecumenical tutoring program for children from Hartford in the 1960s. She loved to travel in Europe and the UK where she had relatives. She was passionate about her flower gardens at her home in Canton, CT., her Beaufort home and around her lovely cottage in Maine.
In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Sanctuary Hospice, P.O. Box 161, Ridgeland, South Carolina, 29936. They were extraordinarily kind.