Shirley Dorothy Tallent died at her home in Plush Mills Senior Living in Wallingford on June 13, 2019. She was 91. A longtime resident of Northampton, Massachusetts (1959-2013), she was born in Springfield, Mass., on July 6, 1927, the second of four children of Leah and Carl Rudman. Her sister, Ruth, and brothers, Seymour and Harold, predeceased her.