Frederic Stuart de Peyster Todd

(Stuart or Stuie)

May 27, 1971 - March 13, 1990

Son of Taffy Todd

Son of Ted Todd

Stepson of Laura Todd

Grandson of Virginia Stuart

Brother of Jennifer Todd, Ashton Todd, and Jill Riley

Drowned in his car, after saving the driver.

                           

"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
     And danced the sky on laughter silvered wings;
     Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
      Of sun-split clouds--and done a hundred things
      You've never dreamed of........

      High in the sunlit silence
      And while with quiet lifting mind I've trod
      I've chased the shouting wind along
       Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."

    
Written by a young airman,  J.G.. Magee
during WWII describing his experience flying. Sent to
his parents who received it after he'd died in a training mission.

Stuart had just fulfilled the final requirement for his pilot's license
a week before his death.