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THOMAS - Services for Adolph G. Thomas, 87 of Albion, who died Sunday in York General Hospital, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Michael Catholic Church [Albion, Boone County, Nebraska]. Rev. Thomas Ward will officiate with burial in St. Michael Cemetery. He will lie in state Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Levander Funeral Home in Albion. Visual services will be held at 7 p.m.Tuesday at the funeral home. Son of Ferdinand and Agnes (Smack) [Schneck] Thomas, he was born July 21, 1892 in Stetin, Germany. He attended Norfolk schools and married Julia Mary Barbara Zach on Feb. 15, 1916 at Humphrey. He moved from Humphrey to Albion where he farmed, later moving to town where he was employed as janitor for St. Michael School and St. Michael Church. Surviving are five sons, Leonard of Washburn, N.D., Henry of Hankinson, N.D., Wilfred, Riverside, Calif., Gerhard, Kansas City, Mo., and Donald of Tekamah, Neb.; five daughters, Mrs. Ed (Dorothy) Galus of Omaha, Mrs. Darwin (Katheryn) Thoms, Madison, Mrs. Glen (Alice) Wiesman [Wiseman], York, Mrs. Ronald (Eileen) Sarnacki of Richardson Tex., and Virginia Galitz of Pierce; several grandchildren; two brothers, Ray Thomas of Wyandotte, Mich., and Joe Thomas of Platte Center; four sisters, Mrs. Bill (Erna) Steiner and Mrs. Everett (Martha) Jones, both of Columbus, Neb., Mrs. Fred (Rose) Hoffmann of Battle Creek, Mrs. Paul (Hidagard) Franks of River View, Mich. He was preceded by his wife, parents, several brothers and sisters.

Adolph THOMAS is my maternal grandfather.  He was born in the Prussian village of Louisenthal, which is now the village of Borzyslawiec / Borzysławiec, Poland, located to the east of Szczecin.  He immigrated with his parents, grandmother Maria Magdalena THOMAS SCHNECK, and older brother, Herman, arriving at the Port of New York on 12 May 1893 aboard the H. H. Meier.