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Susan Tallmadge Sweet

East Hampton, CT, USA

August 21, 1948 - February 7, 2021

Aug 21, 1948 - Feb 7, 2021

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Tom & Cheryl Violante

Susan invited Cheryl and me and our daughter, Samantha, to a dance recital. Ugh! A kids recital! I guess we had to go. Well … it wasn’t JUST a recital, it was a RECITAL! It was worthy of a Broadway production!! We couldn’t believe the excellence of every performer on stage, the choreography that was so unique and the music selections that fit together perfectly. Susan is a genius in our eyes. My daughter, who was 5 or 6, wanted to learn to dance like that! It was a treat and truly memorable. We miss her dearly and her laughter especially! 😢

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Barbara Grisolini

You are missed everyday.

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Tom & Cheryl Violante

1977, Meriden, CT, USA

This pretty, smart and engaging young woman stopped in our agency’s office at Innervisions, Inc., on Curtis Street in Meriden to pitch me a deal for radio advertising on WKSS. I had just finished recording a series of promos for a client, New Haven Airways, that included voicing by my then-4-year-old daughter, Samantha. Susan absolutely loved the promos and created a deal we couldn’t refuse and so we aired them on KSS. More than that, she wanted to meet Samantha and she actually gave her dance lessons the way only Susan could do! She invited us to her troup’s dance recital and we were amazed at her creative and unusual style that was pretty breathtaking and captivating. We became close friends and got together often including at her wedding. We had Bunker Hill sit on our laps and used paper towels to mop up his drools. What wonderful times they were!!! She will always be fondly remembered and terribly missed by us. I’m sure she’s choreographed a new routine for St. Peter!! Miss you so much, Miss Sweet! ❤️

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Tom & Cheryl Violante

Susan fit her last name well: Sweet! She was sweet, successful, funny, warm and a wonderful friend. We last saw her with Christian at her home in Suffield but stayed in touch by phone and frequent texts. She never lost her sense of humor and we promised to get together. We’re sorry we never did. We know she’s at peace and dancing her head off. We miss you so much, Susan!

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Ronna Reynolds

Susan was a dear friend 48 years. I met her when I was just beginning my career at the Bushnell Theater and Susan was a young Sales Rep at WKSS. We both had recently graduated from college... she from Skidmore and me from Connecticut College, where I quickly discovered, that Susan had studied under the great Martha Meyers. From literally our first meeting, we realized that we were kindred spirits...with an astonishingly eclectic but identical set of interests: dance, Broadway, gardening, prize fighting for a short period and UConn Women’s basketball for a very long period. Both of our families traced their professional roots to Middlesex Hospital. But most of all, we shared an off-beat, often irreverent sense of humor. Susan’s hearty laugh was and will remain my very favorite.
We stayed in touch on and off for almost 5 decades and,when together, never once failed to have fun or good conversation… I will miss her greatly and offer my sincere condolences to the family that she loved so very much.

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Ernst Schafer & Donna Matyskiela

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Lucille Swanson

Now it is Susan's turn to teach the angels how to dance!

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Karen Watson

Debbie Shaw

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Debbie Shaw

I am so sad . This was so sudden. Susan was in so many of my childhood family memories. I'm going to miss that deep low voice and that LAUGH!!!! Im grateful that I got to reconnect in the last few years. She always gave me her undivided attention and we always left saying we would see each other at the next family event. I'm so sad.

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Libby Sweet

Susan was older than me but was always a happy good cousin. I remember visiting her with holly I believe in Vermont or New Hampshire to see a recital she was putting on with local children. We all were so young. A good memory. She has always been a good memory. Bless you Susan and say hi to all our predecessors. I will see you again someday. With love. Libby

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June & Noel Greaves

Dear Emily, Zoe, Mickey, Austin & Porsches, Christian & Erin,
We are saddened by the loss of your mom, Susan. Susan brought laugher to family gatherings.
May all those sunny memories sustain you in the days ahead, find peace that extended suffering was spared and that Susan has joined all our loved ones who left before us.
Always,
June & Noel Greaves

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Chery Cutler McHugh

Dearest Friends, I find Susan Sweet an irrepressible presence who lives in my heart and mind today a vibrant, pure, principled, laughing, irreverent, loving, brilliantly creative colleague, a companion, a fighter, and a loyal friend -- true from the rumblings of our youth in the mid-sixty's through the wild vicissitudes of today. It is impossible to convey her, to do her challenging, honest nature justice. Her life-story, unfolded in tandem with my own, was of a New England neighbor, a fellow dancer, indeed, a performer in my Master's Thesis -- issued jointly in 1971 by Wesleyan University, Sarah Laurence and Connecticut Colleges. With her lifetime passing side by side throughout my lifetime, I have rarely known so timeless, true, vibrant, and undiminished a fellow traveler. In all the decades of our lives, Susan has remained profoundly relevant and renewing to me -- a wise-woman, a mother, a fellow-dancer, an activist, a pioneer, a courageous and a stalwart friend. A comfort, an inspiration, and a joy. She shines in my heart to this day an undiminished light! My love to all her dear and truly remarkable family.

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Chery Cutler McHugh

Dearest Friends, I find Susan Sweet an irrepressible presence who lives in my heart and mind today a vibrant, pure, principled, laughing, irreverent, loving, brilliantly creative colleague, a companion, a fighter, and a loyal friend -- true from the rumblings of our youth in the mid-sixty's through the wild vicissitudes of today. It is impossible to convey her, to do her challenging, honest nature justice. Her life-story, unfolded in tandem with my own, was of a New England neighbor, a fellow dancer, indeed, a performer in my Master's Thesis -- issued jointly in 1971 by Wesleyan University, Sarah Laurence and Connecticut Colleges. With her lifetime passing side by side throughout my lifetime, I have rarely known so timeless, true, vibrant, and undiminished a fellow traveler. In all the decades of our lives, Susan has remained profoundly relevant and renewing to me -- a wise-woman, a mother, a fellow-dancer, an activist, a pioneer, a courageous and a stalwart friend. A comfort, an inspiration, and a joy. She shines in my heart to this day an undiminished light! My love to all her dear and truly remarkable family.

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Ted Sweet

Sue Sweet
I’ll miss you like heck. I’m sad I was not able to get there to say goodbye. Remember the lake, waterskiing and swimming, Your home swimming in the pool after mowing the lawn, you and your siblings hiding the goodies so I could find them (stuff you guys didn’t want ie. fruit cake etc.). Meeting again at holly’s family party and waiving at the Portland parade as I passed by (I have those pictures). I wish I could get one more hug. Love, Ted Sweet

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Karen Watson

Dearest Family and Friends of our beloved Susan,
You are all in my loving thoughts and prayers. I am deeply saddened by Susan's passing on February 7. May she live on in all of our shared memories of her, and may Susan be at peace, soaring somewhere among the stars. Susan, may you feel my love even now, as I have felt your love and friendship, always steadfast and boundless.
Susan was one of my dearest friends in life, and I will miss her for the rest of mine.
I offer my poem, in memory of beloved Susan, and the grief that I feel in her departure from this life...

Sister Grief

grief you are my sister
though uninvited you are my companion

sister you are born of love
then born again of loss

lost love blown away like a wisp in the wind
clouds dissolving in changing skies

sister grief you teach me
without love loss is an empty space

void of memories void of hopes
staring alone in the dark

sister grief whispers into my ear
know this my sister

the deeper the grief
the deeper the love

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Cyndy Cox

Susan was my favorite cousin and I’m glad I got to say goodbye even in a text. We went to each other’s birthday parties and rode together to our college. We gabbed nonstop for hours. The stories are too many to just pick one and were always filled with laughs. I loved Susan and will miss her on the planet, just knowing she was there.

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Holly Doherty

Susan was a very loving big sister..... until one of us was the recipient of her dramatic punishment. We got to choose: a hunch, a crunch, or a Hiawatha😂. One of those was a headstand on our stomach, another was sitting and squirming on our stomach, and I wasn’t stupid enough to receive the last one!! She was always the first to call when one of us didn’t feel well and we’d receive an elaborate gift. ( I told her often how bad I felt😜). We will all miss her so much. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Barbara Grisolini

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Emily Schafer

Emily Schafer

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Ted Sweet

Now that’s a family picture..... Now that’s a family picture..... Now that’s a family picture.....

Kitty winslow

Dear Family,

So sorry to hear this news. I have such good memories of our childhood together at RidgeRoad, swimming in your pool, and at Lake Picotopaug. We lost touch as often happens as we get involved with our own families. Love to all of you, Kitty

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