Clifford C. Dartt

1920 - 2015

Clifford C. Dartt 1920 - 2015
Clifford C. Dartt, 95, died peacefully on December 3, 2015, at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, MA.
He was a decorated Veteran and an Eagle Scout. He worked for the telephone company in the US and abroad.
Clifford was born on November 6, 1920, in Derby, CT, to Clifford F. Dartt and Rebecca (Parker) Dartt, and raised in Oneonta, NY. Eleanor Roosevelt awarded Clifford his Eagle Scout ranking in Washington, DC. After graduating from Oneonta High School, Clifford attended the University of Iowa. He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps. Clifford served as a B-17 Co-Pilot with 384th Bombardment Group/544th and was shot down over Belfonds, France. He was taken prisoner by the Nazis and was a POW until April 1945.
In 1946, after the end of the war, Clifford married Lillian Bacheller. They had three children: Darlene, Joanne and Stephen.
Clifford worked for Bell Telephone and Western Electric Company for almost 40 years. He continued his military aviation career by flying helicopters in the New York National Guard. Clifford retired from his distinguished military and civilian working careers and moved to Salida, Colorado, where he lived for about 20 years. His companion was Nancy Zielinski. He left Colorado in 2010 to live at Autumn Glen Assisted Living in Dartmouth, MA.
Clifford is survived by his former wife, Lillian, of Mattapoisett, MA; his three children, Darlene Dartt and her husband, Howard Tarko, of Newton, MA, and their children, Rachel Tarko Hudson and her husband, Sam Hudson, Laura Tarko, and Kathryn Tarko; Joanne (Dartt) and Mark Olson, of Mattapoisett, MA; and Steve and Judy Dartt, of Peabody, MA, and their two children, Richard Brunet and Kristen Brunet.
There will be a memorial service at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in New Bedford, MA, on Sunday, December 20, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. Clifford's cremains will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Clifford's name to the 384th Bombardment Group www.384thbombgroup.com, Wounded Warrior Project www.woundedwarriorproject.org, or the USO www.uso.org/donate.
For condolence book, please visit www.saundersdwyer.com.