Arthur Irving Tillinghast

He grew up in a 2-bedroom house during the depression years. When he was a teenager, he got a job as a caddy on the weekends for wealthy celebrity golfers, and eventually as a flower deliveryman to the movie stars at the studios and wealthy mansions of Beverly Hills.

He spent some of his young adulthood in the California Conservation Corps and studied business in college to earn his AA degree; eventually working for Douglas Aircraft for 35 years as a quality engineer. It was during this career that he was drafted during WWII into the Army Air Corps. It was then that he met his wife Dottie and they shared 65 years of marriage.

After retirement they traveled extensively all over the country and the world with the Airstream Trailer groups for 40 years.

They never had children, but enjoyed many nieces and nephews and family reunions.

Art is preceded in death by his parents, his sisters Carmelita and Carol and his brother Don.

He is survived by his brother Russ and a legacy of family and friends.