Avis de décès de Anna-Martha Talbot - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

Anna Martha (Preskanis) Talbot, of Kensington, died July 28, 2010, three hours before her 86th birthday.She was born in Terryville in 1924, she was the daughter of the late Vincent and Anna (Swicklas) Preskienis. As a teenager, she moved with her family to New Britain where she met Oral Arthur Talbot, her loving and devoted husband of 66 years. At the age of 20, Anna worked for Rapheal's Department Store where she learned to be a skillful seamstress. During World War II she was employed by Landers, Ferry and Clark where she was proud of her work in support of the war effort. After raising her family, she worked as a proofreader for the New Britain Herald and followed by a position as a clerk in the Fingerprint Department of the Connecticut State Police offices in Meriden. They raised their family in New Britain before moving to Kensington in 1970 where they became members of St. Paul's church. She was an exercise buff who loved swimming and taking daily walks around her Kensington neighborhood where she loved to stop and talk to neighbors. She also loved photography, sewing and tailoring, gardening, camping throughout the Northeast and Canada, healthy cooking and ballroom dancing. Her family will miss her loving devotion and her witty sense of humor.Along with her husband, Oral, she is survived by three sons and two daughters, Faith Pautzsch and her husband, Wolfgang, of Boonville, N.Y., Bud Talbot and his wife, Grace, of Kensington, Mark Talbot and his wife, Marisa, of Duluth, Ga., Chris Talbot and his wife, Lillian, of Kensington, and Hope Francis and her husband James, of Folsom, Calif.; her sister, Gladys Pietrowicz, of Plainville; as well as 14 grandchildren; and three great-grand children and her many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her sister, Beatrice Yanke and Beatrice's husband, Albert and her brother-in-law, William Pietrowicz.The funeral was held Aug. 2 2010, at Berlin Memorial Funeral Home, Kensington, followed by a Mass at Saint Paul Church, Kensington. Burial followed at Maple Cemetery, Kensington. Memorial donations may be made to the Catholic Relief Services, 228 W. Lexington St., Baltimore, Maryland 21201-3413. The family would like to thank the staff of Andrew House for the loving care and attention Anna received in her final days.