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Obituary- Gideon, Thomas 2

Thomas I. Gideon
ST. MARYS — Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the United Methodist Church here for Thomas I. Gideon, 76, St. Marys, who was killed Friday, March 15, 1996, south of St. Marys in Wabaunsee County when a tree fell on him while he was clearing trees with a bulldozer.

He was born Jan. 20, 1920, in Emmett, the son of Oscar and Mary Blanche Is nogle Gideon. He spent his early life in the Emmett community and attended Emmett schools. He was a farmer and then lived in Topeka a year before he moved to St. Marys in 1946. He established Gideon Rock and Dirt Contractors and was a heavy equipment operator and did excava¬tion work.

He was married to Ramona Klein Oct. 19, 1940, in Marysville. She survives.

Other survivors include two sons, Thomas L. Gideon, Rossville, and Marvin W. Gideon, St. Marys; a daughter, Donna Brockish, St. Marys; a brother, Garland R. Gideon, Paxico; two sisters, Maureen Whaley, Paxico, and Barbara Luna, Topeka; and four grandchildren.

Burial will be in Valley View Cemetery in St. Marys. Mr. Gideon will lie in state after 3 p.m. today at Piper-Verschelden Funeral Home in St. Marys where relatives and friends will meet from 7 to 8 p.m.

Contributions may be made to the Thomas I. Gideon Memorial Fund yet to be designated and sent in care of the funeral home.

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