Byron Thomas

Male 1922 - UNKNOWN


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  • Name Byron Thomas 
    Birth 22 Nov 1922  Marion County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death UNKNOWN 
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    • "THE HISTORY OF THE GABRIEL McKENZIE AND RACHEL BLUBAUGH FAMILY OF MARYLAND AND OHIO" by Father Homer Blubaugh:

      Thomas, Byron, born Nov. 22,1922, in Marion, Ohio, is a 1940 grad of Saint Mary's High School, served in WW II in US Army as combat engineer with rank of Tech. Sgt. He continued his college studies after the war, graduating from OSU in 1947, with BS Degree in Metallurgy. Byron Edmund Thomas has 28 years of education, ten of college and theological studies. He entered the Dominican Community at Kentfield, Calif., on Aug. 15, 1949, with ordination as a priest on June 11, 1954. Taking the religious name of Leo, Father Leo returns to Marion, Saint Mary's Church, for his First Mass on June 20, 1954. He continues as a teacher of adults in pastoral skills and spirituality. Father Thomas has taught at the Newman Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, and now at Seattle. The back cover of his first book in 1987, "The Healing Team," Paulist Press, gives a marvelous insight into an accomplished researcher, writer and our relative: "Fr. Leo Thomas, 0. P. has spent most of the past ten years with the Institute of Christian Ministry in Tacoma, Washington. There he directed a two-year training program entitled 'Formation For Healing Ministry,' out of which this book developed.
      Father Thomas has taught pastoral care and counsel¬ ling at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas, and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. In addition he has served as a hospital chaplain and had worked actively in the Charismatic Renewal." Father Leo's second publication, "Healing As Parish Ministry," Ave Maria Press, 1992, rounds out this holy writer, whose hobby of relaxation is wood carving. He lives with his Dominican Community at Blessed Sacrament Priory, 5041 9th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98105.
    Person ID I45927  McKenzie Genealogy
    Last Modified 29 Oct 2021 

    Father Eldred LeMoyne Eldon Thomas,   b. 10 Aug 1897   d. 8 Aug 1950 (Age 52 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Margaret Sarah Ward,   b. 1 Jun 1902, Franklin County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Aug 1967, Oakland, Alameda County, California Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 21 Sep 1921  Saint Joseph Church, LaRue, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F17282  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart


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