Margaret Sarah Ward

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"THE HISTORY OF THE GABRIEL McKENZIE AND RACHEL BLUBAUGH FAMILY OF MARYLAND AND OHIO" by Father Homer Blubaugh:

Thomas, Margaret Sarah (Ward), born June 1, 1902, married on Sept. 21, 1921, to Eldred LeMoyne Eldon Thomas at Saint Joseph Church, LaRue, Ohio, by Rev. Creager. LeMoyne, born Aug. 10, 1897, the son of Curtis Thomas, became a graduate engineer. Margaret and LeMoyne are parents of Byron. In their later years they move to Wilcox, Arizona. LeMoyne died Aug. 9, 1950, with burial in Tuscon. After moving to Oakland, California, Margaret died Aug. 9, 1967, with burial at Benicia, Calif., Saint Dominic Cemetery.

Margaret married Eldred LeMoyne Eldon Thomas on 21 Sep 1921 in Saint Joseph Church, LaRue, Ohio. Eldred (son of Curtis Thomas) was born on 10 Aug 1897; died on 8 Aug 1950. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.