ALBION – Arthur James Thomas, 79, died Friday, March 2, 2007, at the Maine Veterans’ Home, Bangor. He was born May 31, 1927, in China, the son of William and Esther (Bragdon) Thomas. Arthur grew up in Aroostook County, where he worked on several potato farms. Moving to the Albion area in the 1960s, he worked many years as a woodsman. Arthur was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. He was a prisoner of war and received the Purple Heart. Arthur’s passion was hunting, fishing and trapping. In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by brothers and sisters, Millie Liver-more, Arlene, Richard, Robert, Grant, Shirley, William, Gary, Neal, Carl and Lowell Thomas. Surviving are three brothers, Claude Thomas and wife, Marion, of Knox, Dale Thomas and wife, Beatrice, of Brooks and Bernard Thomas of Knox; two sisters, Elnora Shaw of Boothbay and Frances Paradis and husband, Irvin, of China and New Orleans; many nieces and nephews. Friends are invited to visit noon-2 p.m. Sunday, March 4, at Wheeler Funeral Home, 26 Church St., Oakland, where a funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Sunday.
ARTHUR J. THOMAS
