Jared "Jerry" C. Talbot

February 15, 1939 - May 9, 2022

NORTHAMPTON, MA - Jared Chandler Talbot, 83, died Monday, May 9, 2022, at the Linda Manor Nursing Home in Northampton. He was born February 15, 1939, in Norwalk, CT, the son of the late Roscoe Post Talbot and Margaret (Hamilton) Talbot. In the summer of 1946, Jerry moved with his family to the farm at 84 long Hill Road in Andover, CT which his grandparents had purchased in 1910. In 2014 he moved from his farm to the Beaven Kelly Rest Home in Holyoke, MA and in July of 2021 moved to the Linda Manor nursing Home. In his younger years, Jerry worked at various jobs in Andover. He worked on the town road crew, shoveling sand off the back of a plow truck in the winter and cleaning storm drains and clearing roadside brush the rest of the year. He also for awhile mowed the grass at the Townsend Cemetery. In his later years, he worked at his cousin Barry’s mailing business in Coventry where he assembled packages for mailing and carried mail back and forth to the post office in his pickup truck. He also was involved in all aspects of running the family sheep farm from 1946 until the last sheep left in the 1980’s. After that he could be frequently seen on his riding lawn mower keeping the former pastures mowed alongside Long Hill Road. Jerry was a member of the Andover Volunteer Fire Department and the Andover First Congregational Church. He enjoyed and loved all animals, especially the sheep, the family cats, and dogs, and all the birds that flocked to his bird feeders. He enjoyed his many long winter stays in Warm Mineral Springs, Florida where his mother went for relief from arthritis. Jerry is survived by his brother Thomas Talbot and his wife Katherine Halvorsen of Northampton, MA, and by his cousins Mona Brown of Fayetteville, Arkansas; Barbara Barry and husband Thomas of Coventry, Connecticut; Deborah Aberg of Wake Forest, North Carolina. The funeral will be Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at 12:30 at the Andover First Congregational Church. A short committal and burial will follow at Townsend Cemetery in Andover. Memorial contributions may be made to the Andover Volunteer Fire Department, 11 School Rd., Andover, CT 06232. The Drozdal Funeral Home of Northampton has been entrusted with his services. For more information or to leave the family a personal condolence please visit Drozdalfuneralhome.com