IN MEMORIAL


ELLIOT GREGORY THOMAS
February 9, 1956 April 6, 1986



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STS. PETER & PAUL CATHEDRAL
Thursday, April 10, 1986 at 10:30 a.m.

VIEWING
Creque's Funeral Home
Thursday, April 10, 1986 at 8:30 a.m.

INTERMENT
Mount Hope Cemetery, New York
Hasting on the Hudson

OFFICIATING
Father Carlyle Blake


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In Appreciation


One of the greatest gifts of anyone's life is the support that
relatives and friends give. Some of you were with us in person or
in spirit when Elliot Gregory was born in the Bronx on February
9, 1956. You shared then in our joy. Like the good relatives and
friends you are, you maintained an interest in his progress. Birth-
days were remembered with cards and gifts; Christmas was made
especially enjoyable. Advice and counseling were given.
Time passed swiftly but not without tragedy. On February
23, 1970, Gregory and I lost his mother, my wife, Irene Florence
- suddenly, with little warning. At age fourteen, then, he was
faced with the awesome task of adjusting to life without a
mother. Soon after we moved to St. Thomas where he was faced
with the added hurdle of adjusting to a new environment.
But here in St. Thomas there was an even wider circle of
good relatives and friends to make the transitions easy. Gregory
graduated from Sts. Peter and Paul's High School in 1974 and
matriculated at St. Joseph's College in Indiana. He returned to
St. Thomas to work with our family at Cathedral Pharmacy.
His passing on April 6, 1986, was a shock to all of us.
Fathers generally assume that they will be laid to rest by their
sons especially when there is just an only son and that only
son is an only child. But for us Gregory and me the roles
are reversed.
Perhaps the best summary of his life was made by his cousin
and good buddy, April Heyliger. According to her, "Gregory
wasn't an outspoken guy; but he showed his love by little acts of
kindness." That's how I saw him too.
All or you have oeen kind and suDportive.
It's been my joy in life to find
At every turning of the road
The strong arm of a comrade kind
To help me onward with my load;
And since I have no gold to give,
And love alone can make amends,
My fervent prayer is, "While I live
God make me worthy of my friends.


Clarence E. Thomas
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Order of Service
Entrance Hymn. ....................... ... ."To God Be the Glory"
First Reading ............... ...... ...... .A da John
Responsorial Psalm ..................... ...... .. .Aida John
Second Reading ...........................Alfred Heath, M.D.
Homily ......... ........................ Rev. Carlyle Blake
Offertory Hymn ........................ Sts. Peter & Paul Choir
Communion Hymn ............. ."Through the Love of God, Our Savior"
Meditation Hymn ............................... Faye Moon
Recessional .............. .. "In Heavenly Love Abiding"


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Survivors


FATHER
Clarence Thomas

STEPBROTHER
Richard Vialet


Helen Thomas, St. T.


Sedric Heyliger, St T.


Mildred Thomas
Helen Mae Thomas
Dorothy Phillips, N.Y.


STEPMOTHER
June Thomas


STEPSISTER
Leonicia Vialet, Arlington, Va.


GRANDMOTHERS


UNCLES
Elliot Thomas, St.T.


AUNTS


Sylvia Bolden, N.Y.


John Hunter, N.Y.


Blanche Thomas
Bernice-Louise Heyliger
Janet Hunter, Md.


John Heyliger


SPECIAL COUSINS
Russell Thomas


Pall Bearers
Sedric Heyliger
Michael Farrington
Elmo Adams
Eugene Kuntz


HONORARY PALLBEARERS


Alfred Heath, M.D.
Walter John
Theodore Larsen
Ezekiel Walters


April Heyliger


Wynn John
Samuel Lawrence
Richard Vialct
Ker iedy


Alien Canton
Norris Evans
Hubert Raimer
Antonio Freeman


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