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Curt Yeomans


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In case anyone hasn't heard yet. TJ Thomas was killed in a automobile accident at the intersection of 40th and Lincoln Rd on Saturday morning.

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How absolutely horrible.  My heart goes out to this young person's family. 

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Thanks Curt.


I had not heard about this. I'm also very saddened for the family. I haven't seen anything in the paper -- did I just miss it?


Any information on the student's background or family?


 


 


 



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It was in the online HA. I thought it was an odd place to have a fatal accident, but it was about 2am so no telling what. It just breaks your heart.

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Stephen, I didn't know TJ too well, mainly through mutual friends, but I know he was in Sigma Phi Epsilon and he was involved in SGA and that he was from the coast. His facebook page listed him as a political science major, as well as studying economics and his goal was to someday attend Yale's law school. There was barely anything on the Hattiesburg American's website about the crash.


I also found this about his wake and funeral service.


Arrangements for TJ Thomas
Body: Bradford O'Keefe Funeral Home
15452 O'Neal Road
Gulfport, MS 39503
228.831.8806

The visitation for T.J. will be held at Bradford O'Keefe Funeral home on Monday August 28, 2006 at 5 - 8pm.

There will be a service held at Bradford O'Keefe Funeral home by Father Tommy on Tuesday August 29, 2006 at 2:00 pm. We will all follow to the cemetary, D'Iberville Memorial Park.

go to this website (o'neal location):
http://www.bradfordokeefe.com/index.php



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here's a link to his obituary on the bradford o'keefe website.


http://www.bradfordokeefe.com/obituaries/view_obit.php?id=1612



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Curt Yeomans wrote:


here's a link to his obituary on the bradford o'keefe website.


http://www.bradfordokeefe.com/obituaries/view_obit.php?id=1612



Thanks Curt, for following up. I'm suprised that there wasn't more coverage  . . . 

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Several years ago I was stopped on my way home by a horrible wreck, in which two people were killed and two badly injured. There was never a word in the HA, but there was an article about a wreck in Minnesota (or somewhere). I wonder if the HA just doesn't have the staff to do as much local reportage as we'd like.

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I would hope the Printz does something on the accident, not just because he was a USM student, but because he was one of our 'go-to' students to interview for student opinion on a matter. Go-to students were people we know have a pretty good knowledge on what students at the university want, and how they feel about certain issues. We would only use them when deadline was pushing at night and we needed the so-called 'third source' (we weren't allowed to put stories inthe paper back then that had less than three sources, by and large that's still true at the Printz). There were only a small handfull of these 'go-to' student sources, and they weren't used often, but we had them just in case.

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He was an impressive young man.


I'm sure the Printz will give him appropriate and sensitive attention. It is easy to forget that out beyond our own students there is a whole campus full of unique individuals who remain concealed from us. It is sad that sometimes we only learn of them in tragedy.


Thanks again Curt -- it reminds me not to take my students and their tomorrows for granted.



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stephen judd wrote:


He was an impressive young man.


I'm sure the Printz will give him appropriate and sensitive attention. It is easy to forget that out beyond our own students there is a whole campus full of unique individuals who remain concealed from us. It is sad that sometimes we only learn of them in tragedy.


Thanks again Curt -- it reminds me not to take my students and their tomorrows for granted.




Printz--USM mourns loss of T.J. Thomas


http://media.www.studentprintz.com/media/storage/paper974/news/2006/08/29/News/Usm-Mourns.Loss.Of.T.j.Thomas-2249547.shtml?sourcedomain=www.studentprintz.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com



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