Allegany County MD Archives Obituaries.....Thomas F. WINTERS, 1952
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Shawn McGreevy shawnmcgreevy@geatz.com 


"Evening Times" Cumberland, Maryland, Mon 24 Nov 1952: "
Escort Will Meet Body Of Capt. Winters-A delegation of Frostburg service organizations 
will meet the body of Capt. Thomas F. Winters, native of that city, who died several 
weeks ago in a hospital in Germany, when it arrives tomorrow at 11:15 a.m. on B & O 
Passenger Train 11. The military escort will accompany the body of the former Allegany 
High School teacher to the Hafer Funeral Home, Frostburg. The 37-year-old area resident 
was born January 7, 1915, a son of the late Thomas and Katherine (Tippen) Winters, of 
Frostburg. Capt. Winters attended St. Michael's School and LaSalle High School. One 
year later he entered Ammendale Normal Institute and then graduated from LaSalle College 
in Philadelphia. He instructed mathematics at West Catholic High School, Philadelphia, 
for six years and then entered St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, to study for one year. 
Later he enlisted in the armed forces following the attack at Pearl Harbor. After 
completing officers' candidate training he was commissioned a lieutenant at Miami. 
Capt. Winters was later assigned as cadet instructor at Altus Air Base in Oklahoma. He 
also was a provost marshal in the Military Police. After his discharge, he became an 
instructor at Allegany High School and taught English for five years until he was 
recalled into the service in January. After being stationed at National Airport, 
Washington, he received orders in September to overseas duty in Germany. He arrived 
there October 6 and was stationed at Templehoff Air Base, Berlin, for two weeks. Later 
his family received word of his serious illness and death. Capt. Winters was a member 
of St. Michael's Catholic Church, Frostburg; Chief Justice Taney Council, Fourth Degree, 
Knights of Columbus, Cumberland; Farrady Post, American Legion; Fairgrieve Post, 
Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Braddock Chapter 9, Disabled American War Veterans. 
Surviving are two sisters, Mary Genevieve Goldsworthy and Mrs. Mary Malamphy, both of 
Frostburg, and a brother, George Winters, Baltimore."

 

This file is located at http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/allegany/obits/w/winters-tf.txt