Clarence (Sid) Prescott Talbot, Jr., was born on 22 May 1920 in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois.
1 He died on 6 January 2005, at age 84, in Wisconsin.
1 Army Air Corps.
2 Clarence (Sid) Prescott Talbot, Jr., was an Inspector General Department of Air Weather Service.
2 Larence P. "Sid" Talbot, Jr. died on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005, at Encore Senior Living.
He was born on May 22, 1920 in Rockford, Ill. to Clarence P. and Florelle (Guerrant) Talbot Sr. Sid's father being a military flyer, Sid spent his youth in four different grade schools, five different high schools and two different junior colleges. Three months before the U.S. entry into World War II, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps. Unable to be a military pilot because of color blindness, Sid went through various military meteorological schools. After graduating from the forecasters school, he went through OCS.
Sid married Cheryl A. Davidson while he was in command of a weather station in Kentucky, just a couple of weeks before he was assigned to be group weather officer for a bomb group in Italy. After Germany's surrender, he was sent directly to the CBI theater in India where he remained until the surrender of Japan. Sid commanded Air Force weather stations in California, Japan, Truax Field, Madison, Greenland, Delaware and Turkey, where he was the U.S. representative to the Turkish Meteorological Society in Ankara and where he received his final promotion as lieutenant colonel. His final military assignment was in the Inspector General Department of Air Weather Service, where he was a team chief. Sid retired to Madison, where he was hired as executive vice president of the Madison MLS and Realtor Association, where he supervised updating of records to IBM. He retired again to do some writing. Sid also worked for 12 years with H and R Block preparing tax returns.
Sid is survived by his wife, Cheryl; sons, David of DeForest, Larry and Richard, both of Madison, and Charles of Belleville; a daughter, Jean (Dean) Kendall of Elkhart Lake; eight grandchildren; a great-granddaughter; and two sisters, Joyce (Ivan) Ferguson and Sue (Dick) Easterbrook, both of California. He was preceded in death by his parents and an infant daughter, Lynne Ellen.
A memorial service will be held at LAKE EDGE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, 4200 Buckeye Road, Madison, at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 15, with the Rev. David Michael presiding.
Visitation will be at the church from 9 a.m. until the time of the service.
Sid was a multi-talented man who was a loving husband, father and grandfather.
The Gunderson East Funeral and Cremation Centers of Madison is assisting the family.
The Sheboygan Press
January 9, 2005.