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October 10, 2011
Theodore Basil Talis “Ted” age 92 of Wayne, formerly of Caldwell, passed into life eternal on Monday, October 10, 2011 at home with his loving wife Trudy at his bedside.
He was born and spent his childhood in Newark and received his formal education at Barringer High School and Upsala College.
His first job in life was delivering groceries and those years were very difficult times financially. He would give his salary to his mother to help support the family and then kept the tips he received for his own use. He knew difficult times and would speak of his early years in Newark living and being raised in a cold water flat apartment. As a youngster he always was looking for ways to improve himself and he had more than twenty-one jobs striving always to be the best he could. Starting from his first job forward he found himself gifted with an upbeat sociable personality and a personality bent toward what it took to be a genuine achieving entrepreneur. He was unstoppable in trying to improve his business life. All throughout his life he was the “go to guy” to accomplish whatever needed to be done.
Much of his Army service was in Hawaii as a Staff Sergeant and he would take every opportunity to achieve gainful self employment along with his Army service. He would share stories with his family of providing cars for sale to fellow Army officers and he did quite well. In Hawaii he also ran a Coca Cola Bottling distributorship. He was discharged from the Army in 1945. The first real job he had in the states was for the American Gas Company and also had a side entrepreneurial effort of establishing his own “Talis Fancy Box Business.”
Ted was also gifted with a kind and gentle personality and had a special devotion to his family. In 1947 he met Joan Harbecke and after a two year courtship they married in 1949 and had a “madly in love marriage” until Joan’s passing in 1983. He remarried in 1992 to a beautiful woman named Trudy Tanis and had nineteen years of very happy marriage together.
His principal occupation in life was for International Telephone and Telegraph commonly known as IT&T located in Nutley as a Mechanical Engineer. His work was in several divisions of IT&T but his favorite was Avionics where he became instrumental in the American Space Program. Being inventive by nature he helped develop the Black Box for space shuttles. In his work he had the highest top secret clearance for the very sensitive work he was engaged in for the defense department.
Known to his family as "PopPop" his original games were plentiful, mostly involving his brown vinyl, swivel easy chair. There were hours of the highly anticipated stories of The Little Mouse which could get quite frightening at times and always ended with being tickled into hysteria. The ever intriguing Button Game where his children and later grandchildren sat on his legs holding his hands and pressed a particular button for a change in the ride they would receive (normal trotting, super fast racing or hobbally- ho splits) Another game he invented was Ta Da! This was a fabulously fast yet artistic combination game of running and jumping up on his knees as he would “spot” his kids and they would then strike an outstanding pose usually involving arms up or out and on one foot. He was also cherished by his step children and step grandchildren with whom he had many wonderful family times. They loved to hear his stories and many jokes, no matter how corny. He had a great influence on their lives and loved them like his own. He was a great example of being a father and husband showing his love for his entire family.
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October 10, 2011
Theodore Basil Talis “Ted” age 92 of Wayne, formerly of Caldwell, passed into life eternal on Monday, October 10, 2011 at home with his loving wife Trudy at his bedside.
He was born and spent his childhood in Newark and received his formal education at Barringer High School and Upsala College.
His first job in life was delivering groceries and those years were very difficult times financially. He would give his salary to his mother to help support the family and then kept the tips he received for his own use. He knew difficult times and would speak of his early years in Newark living and being raised in a cold water flat apartment. As a youngster he always was looking for ways to improve himself and he had more than twenty-one jobs striving always to be the best he could. Starting from his first job forward he found himself gifted with an upbeat sociable personality and a personality bent toward what it took to be a genuine achieving entrepreneur. He was unstoppable in trying to improve his business life. All throughout his life he was the “go to guy” to accomplish whatever needed to be done.
Much of his Army service was in Hawaii as a Staff Sergeant and he would take every opportunity to achieve gainful self employment along with his Army service. He would share stories with his family of providing cars for sale to fellow Army officers and he did quite well. In Hawaii he also ran a Coca Cola Bottling distributorship. He was discharged from the Army in 1945. The first real job he had in the states was for the American Gas Company and also had a side entrepreneurial effort of establishing his own “Talis Fancy Box Business.”
Ted was also gifted with a kind and gentle personality and had a special devotion to his family. In 1947 he met Joan Harbecke and after a two year courtship they married in 1949 and had a “madly in love marriage” until Joan’s passing in 1983. He remarried in 1992 to a beautiful woman named Trudy Tanis and had nineteen years of very happy marriage together.
His principal occupation in life was for International Telephone and Telegraph commonly known as IT&T located in Nutley as a Mechanical Engineer. His work was in several divisions of IT&T but his favorite was Avionics where he became instrumental in the American Space Program. Being inventive by nature he helped develop the Black Box for space shuttles. In his work he had the highest top secret clearance for the very sensitive work he was engaged in for the defense department.
Known to his family as "PopPop" his original games were plentiful, mostly involving his brown vinyl, swivel easy chair. There were hours of the highly anticipated stories of The Little Mouse which could get quite frightening at times and always ended with being tickled into hysteria. The ever intriguing Button Game where his children and later grandchildren sat on his legs holding his hands and pressed a particular button for a change in the ride they would receive (normal trotting, super fast racing or hobbally- ho splits) Another game he invented was Ta Da! This was a fabulously fast yet artistic combination game of running and jumping up on his knees as he would “spot” his kids and they would then strike an outstanding pose usually involving arms up or out and on one foot. He was also cherished by his step children and step grandchildren with whom he had many wonderful family times. They loved to hear his stories and many jokes, no matter how corny. He had a great influence on their lives and loved them like his own. He was a great example of being a father and husband showing his love for his entire family.
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