PAA/DL Capt. Thomas E. Van Note III

 ....plz note correction....online obit says age 83 but should say 84 yrs of age.

Thank you/Carol for the PCN

~ IN MEMORY ~

USAF veteran, PAA/DL Capt. Thomas E. Van Note III

July 28, 1934 ~ December 29, 2018

 

…..belated notice…..but we have just been given word that retired Pan Am/Delta pilot Captain Tom Van Note passed in 2018.  Captain Van Note joined Pan American Airways 08-31-1964 and retired with Delta Air Lines.  He is survived by his wife Roberta  along with his children and grandchildren.

Obituary information is still available online at

  https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/northjersey/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-e-vannote&pid=191332288

Captain Van Note had most recently resided in New Jersey at

 42 Lakewood Ave., Ho Ho Kus, NJ 07423

Thank you,

~ Carol for the PCN 

 

Obituary  :  Thomas E. Van Note III

Thomas E. Van Note, a 54 year resident of Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ, died peacefully in his sleep on December 29th, 2018. He was 83 years old.

 

Tom was born in Long Branch, NJ on July 28th, 1934. He attended West Freehold Grammar School, followed by four years at Freehold High School, where he participated in all sports, starring in track and football. "Many years ago my father took me to see the farmhouse where his job as a young boy was to vaccinate chickens", recalls son Tom IV. "He showed me the dirt road that led from the main house to the mailbox. After sprinting every day to retrieve the mail, he remarked that the distance from the house to the mailbox was 1/4 mile. My father later went on to become the Group II NJ State Champion in the 400 yd. dash, later competing in the Penn Relays."

 

Moving on to Colgate University, from 1953-57, Tom entered ROTC and advanced to become an ROTC Distinguished Graduate, class of '57. Married his senior year at Colgate to Roberta Boulgarides on August 25th, 1956, Tom and Roberta traveled to his initial year of Air Force flight training in Bainbridge, GA. Upon completion of flight training on October 6th, 1958, Tom and Roberta moved to Castle AFB, CA as he transitioned to the KC-135. Honorably discharged from active duty in August of 1964, Tom continued to fly in the Air National Guard at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, NY.

 

Hired by Pan American World Airways, Tom went on to experience the pinnacle of his aviation career while working for the world's premier airline. Serving initially as a flight navigator on the B-707, Tom progressed to flying the B-747 and flew the "Clipper 1" around the world flight, where first class passengers could disembark at any enroute city during their journey and later later reboard to continue passage to their final destination. Tom later upgraded to captain on the B-707 and eventually retired in the captain's seat of the Airbus A-300/310 at the age of 58.

 

After retiring, Tom engaged in numerous charitable endeavors, including driving for Meals on Wheels, and volunteering to restore aviation exhibits at the Aviation Hall of Fame at Teterboro Airport in NJ. Tom and Roberta had previously established the Thomas E. and Roberta Van Note Endowed Scholarship Fund for Colgate University.

 

Tom is survived by his wife Roberta of 62 years, son Tom IV of Manchester-by- the-Sea, Ma., daughter Michele of Des Plaines, Ill., and son Chris of Denver, Co. Grandchildren Tommy and Steven of Chicago, Ill., Jonathan, Katy, and Daniel of Denver, Co., and great granddaughter Abigail. Also survived by his brother Paul of Milwaukee, Wi., and sisters Linda and Susan of Freehold, NJ.