Tallulah was born on May 14, 1918 on the Honolulu Plantation at Aiea, Oahu, where her grandfather was manager and her father was assistant manager. Her childhood was spent in Wailuku, Maui with her parents and five brothers and sisters. While there her father, James A. Gibb, became assistant manager of Wailuku Sugar Co. Her grandfather, James Gibb, had come to Hawaii from Scotland as a young man and was a plantation manager in Hawaii's sugar industry.
When her family moved to Los Gatos, California, Tallulah graduated from Los Gatos High School in 1935 as president of her senior class. At the age of 17, she traveled by boat to the Philippines with her grandmother to visit relatives living in Manila and Negros.
She attended Dominican College in San Rafael, California, on a scholarship and taught in California schools prior to WWII.
Tallulah joined the Red Cross in 1943 and served in Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines. She worked with soldiers experiencing psychological distress and also with released prisoners of war and liberated civilian internees prior to repatriation.
After the war, she returned to Hawaii and married Francis L. "Roy" Bennett at St. Augustine's Church in Honolulu on January 7, 1947. They raised four children in Lanikai, Hilo, and Honolulu.
Tallulah worked and taught in private and public schools, including Punahou School, a special education program at Star of the Sea Elementary School, Hilo High School, and was a principal at Le Jardin Academy for a brief period in the seventies. She taught many children to read, even in retirement.
Tallulah and Roy spent their retirement years in Hilo. She loved the community of Hilo, and birds, plants, and trees.
When asked what accomplishments meant the most to her, she would respond, "my children."
[ Excerpt from obituary printed by Ballard Family Mortuaries, Hawaii ]
When her family moved to Los Gatos, California, Tallulah graduated from Los Gatos High School in 1935 as president of her senior class. At the age of 17, she traveled by boat to the Philippines with her grandmother to visit relatives living in Manila and Negros.
She attended Dominican College in San Rafael, California, on a scholarship and taught in California schools prior to WWII.
Tallulah joined the Red Cross in 1943 and served in Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines. She worked with soldiers experiencing psychological distress and also with released prisoners of war and liberated civilian internees prior to repatriation.
After the war, she returned to Hawaii and married Francis L. "Roy" Bennett at St. Augustine's Church in Honolulu on January 7, 1947. They raised four children in Lanikai, Hilo, and Honolulu.
Tallulah worked and taught in private and public schools, including Punahou School, a special education program at Star of the Sea Elementary School, Hilo High School, and was a principal at Le Jardin Academy for a brief period in the seventies. She taught many children to read, even in retirement.
Tallulah and Roy spent their retirement years in Hilo. She loved the community of Hilo, and birds, plants, and trees.
When asked what accomplishments meant the most to her, she would respond, "my children."
[ Excerpt from obituary printed by Ballard Family Mortuaries, Hawaii ]
Tallulah was born on May 14, 1918 on the Honolulu Plantation at Aiea, Oahu, where her grandfather was manager and her father was assistant manager. Her childhood was spent in Wailuku, Maui with her parents and five brothers and sisters. While there her father, James A. Gibb, became assistant manager of Wailuku Sugar Co. Her grandfather, James Gibb, had come to Hawaii from Scotland as a young man and was a plantation manager in Hawaii's sugar industry.
When her family moved to Los Gatos, California, Tallulah graduated from Los Gatos High School in 1935 as president of her senior class. At the age of 17, she traveled by boat to the Philippines with her grandmother to visit relatives living in Manila and Negros.
She attended Dominican College in San Rafael, California, on a scholarship and taught in California schools prior to WWII.
Tallulah joined the Red Cross in 1943 and served in Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines. She worked with soldiers experiencing psychological distress and also with released prisoners of war and liberated civilian internees prior to repatriation.
After the war, she returned to Hawaii and married Francis L. "Roy" Bennett at St. Augustine's Church in Honolulu on January 7, 1947. They raised four children in Lanikai, Hilo, and Honolulu.
Tallulah worked and taught in private and public schools, including Punahou School, a special education program at Star of the Sea Elementary School, Hilo High School, and was a principal at Le Jardin Academy for a brief period in the seventies. She taught many children to read, even in retirement.
Tallulah and Roy spent their retirement years in Hilo. She loved the community of Hilo, and birds, plants, and trees.
When asked what accomplishments meant the most to her, she would respond, "my children."
[ Excerpt from obituary printed by Ballard Family Mortuaries, Hawaii ]
When her family moved to Los Gatos, California, Tallulah graduated from Los Gatos High School in 1935 as president of her senior class. At the age of 17, she traveled by boat to the Philippines with her grandmother to visit relatives living in Manila and Negros.
She attended Dominican College in San Rafael, California, on a scholarship and taught in California schools prior to WWII.
Tallulah joined the Red Cross in 1943 and served in Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines. She worked with soldiers experiencing psychological distress and also with released prisoners of war and liberated civilian internees prior to repatriation.
After the war, she returned to Hawaii and married Francis L. "Roy" Bennett at St. Augustine's Church in Honolulu on January 7, 1947. They raised four children in Lanikai, Hilo, and Honolulu.
Tallulah worked and taught in private and public schools, including Punahou School, a special education program at Star of the Sea Elementary School, Hilo High School, and was a principal at Le Jardin Academy for a brief period in the seventies. She taught many children to read, even in retirement.
Tallulah and Roy spent their retirement years in Hilo. She loved the community of Hilo, and birds, plants, and trees.
When asked what accomplishments meant the most to her, she would respond, "my children."
[ Excerpt from obituary printed by Ballard Family Mortuaries, Hawaii ]
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