Easton A Taylor Jr.

Easton “East” Ainsworth Taylor Jr. 89 resident of Jupiter Florida passed away peacefully on November 7th, 2014 from natural causes. He was in the comfort of his home with his bride of sixty-seven years Antoinette ‘Ginger” Marie Taylor by his side.

Easton was born August 30th 1925 in Newburyport Massachusetts to Easton A. Taylor Sr. & Carolena C. (Fowler) Taylor and grew up with his brother Arthur “Brud” Taylor in Salisbury Massachusetts.

He was raised in the coastal town of Salisbury and graduated Amesbury High School where he served as Captain of the varsity football team from 1942-43. Easton fondly remembered his daily trek to school whereby he would run the space between two telephone poles and walked one, as part of his football training regiment.

Easton chose to serve our country during WW2 by graduating early (seven months before his 18th birthday) so he could enlist in the US Navy. During his time serving in the Navy he became a medic and his first duty station was at the WWII Naval Torpedo Station in Newport Rhode Island . He was known amongst his crew simply as "Doc" and was later initiated into the torpedo recovery dive team. He spent seven months as a certified hard-hat diver searching for errant test torpedoes (non-warhead) lost in the mud followed by a deployment aboard the USS Telfair in the South Pacific. On April 2nd 1945 his ship was hit by a kamikaze attack and Easton was one of the fortunate to have survived.

Easton moved back to New England in the summer of 1947 after serving in the Navy and began a summer job at Wentworth By The Sea in coastal NH. It was here where he met and fell in love with Antoinette Poulin, a blue eyed, red head from New Britain Connecticut also working at the resort Three months later on October 3rd 1947 they were married and departed on their first adventure to NYC for their honeymoon. Their subsequent adventure found them on a train headed to Palm Beach to work at the glamorous Breakers Resort for the forthcoming winter months. They returned north and settled in Amesbury Massachusetts where their next adventure was to become parents to their first child (of six ) born in March of 1949.

Easton and his younger brother Arthur “Brud”, who was also a WWII veteran, opened Taylor’s Barber Shop in Salisbury Square. The shop became a mainstay within the community which Brud continued to run until his retirement. The shop still stands today and bears the name “TAYLOR”.

Easton went to work briefly at the Portsmouth Naval yard and later started a career with Bell Telephone as a lineman climbing and servicing the same poles that he used to measure his runs to and from high school. In a turn of events, Easton took advantage of the G.I. Bill for education and advanced his career at New England Bell Telephone.

His family grew to include 5 more children spanning 18 years while residing in Amesbury. He was an active member of community from little league coaching to serving on the towns school board and participating in the Amesbury Police volunteer program.

In 1979 he retired from Bell Telephone and moved his family to Lake Park Florida to begin what would be a second career (with what is now Verizon) engineering the fiber optic network before retiring in 1996.

He and Ginger chose to remain in Florida and moved into the retirement community of Indianwood Country Club in Indiantown Florida. He would often say that he was not old enough to play golf yet at Indianwood he finally took up the sport and you could not keep him off the links!

Throughout his life he loved his New England roots, his New England Patriots, his children and his family but the most enduring and passionate love was that for his beloved Ginger. For sixty-seven years they lived, laughed, cried, loved and took on all of life's challenges hand in hand.

He is survived by his devoted wife Antoinette “Ginger” Marie (Poulin) Taylor, His children Caryl Taylor widow of Mark E. Taylor of Campton NH, Jeffrey A. Taylor and his wife Marlene of Goffstown NH, Timothy F. Taylor and his wife Christine Dennison of New York City, Daniel P. Taylor of Portsmouth NH, Retired Lt Colonel Andrew A. Taylor and husband Joseph Cabato of National Harbor MD and Carolyn R. (Taylor) Rabbitt & Hiedi Haggerty of Greenacres Florida, Grandchildren: Adam, Matthew, Meghan, Alyssa, Jordan, Hannah, Garett, Brooke, Morgan, Ian, Jack, Britney, Taylor, Terry, Jeff, Jay, Jimmy and Patrick, as well as numerous great grandchildren.

A memorial mass will be held on Thursday, 2:00 PM, November 20, 2014 at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Indiantown, FL. Internment will be in New England at a date to be determined for the Summer of 2015

Contributions may be made in his name to the Alzheimer's Association Southeast Florida, 3333 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33406. http://www.alz.org/seflorida/

Please visit his online guestbook at www.aycockfuneralhome.net

Arrangements are entrusted to Aycock Funeral Home, Stuart, FL.

Don’t Grieve

Today I left my loved ones and as I go I pray,

Lord don’t let them grieve too much, because I’ve died today.

Let there be no wailing echoing the halls,

the same halls that held laughter and answers to my calls.

I pray they all take comfort accepting the true way,

and listen when I tell them these three things today.

Love will be forever, a promise that will last.

So love me more than ever now my time with you has passed.

And last of all remember the glowing love to be,

when our eyes meet once again, for all eternity.