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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.