March Field, 1947
Posted on 03/08/2006 11:51:29 AM PST by Borges
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Officials at a Tallahassee funeral home say a man who culminated a 35-year military career serving as superintendent of the U-S Air Force Academy has died.
Officials at Culley's MeadowWood Funeral Home say that Former Air Force Lieutenant General Kenneth Tallman died Monday at age 80 from complications of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
A native of Nebraska, TAllman graduated from the U-S Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1946. He then went on to become a fighter pilot, serving in Vietnam as an Air Force assistant to Army General William Westmoreland.
After his military retirement in 1981, Tallman served as president of the Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and then at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach. He retired in 1991.
Tallman is survived by his wife of 54 years, Jeanne, three children and seven grandchildren.
A memorial service is scheduled Friday at the Faith Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee. Tallman will be buried April eleventh at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
What a long and courageous life he lived...big heap'o praise from In Hoc.
RIP, General, and thanks for your service.
March Field, 1947
God bless your family and thank you for your years of service to this country.....
Rest in peace.
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