Don Darling

Mr. Don Darling, 80, passed away Thursday, October 30, 2008 in Lady Lake, Florida. The graveside service will be at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, November 15, 2008 at Oak City Cemetery with Rev. Andy McQuaid officiating. Online visitors may sign the guest register at www.iveyfuneral.com . In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to Cornerstone Village Hospice, 601 Casa Bella, The Villages, Florida 32162. Mr. Darling was born November 22, 1927 in South Ryegate, Vermont, the son of Charles B. Darling and Eleanor Frances Andrews Darling. He served in the U.S. Navy in WWII where he witnessed the first atomic bomb testing on Bikini Atoll. He attended the University of Vermont and McGill University in Montreal, Canada where he met his first wife, Doris Walsh, who preceded him in death after twenty-four years of marriage. He retired from IBM after thirty-six years to raise cattle and open his own ceramic shop in Bainbridge and later moved to The Villages in Lady Lake, FL. Survivors include his wife, Grace Darling of Lady Lake, FL; his daughter, Carole Angell of Bainbridge, GA; three step-sons, Matthew Johnson of Virginia, Ernest Johnson of Texas and Kenneth Johnson of Scotland, UK; eight grandchildren, including Kevin Angell and his wife Suzanne of Bainbridge, GA, Sydney Heard of Bainbridge, GA and Elizabeth Knox and her husband Jason of Edison, GA; and ten great-grandchildren.