EIGHTH GENERATION

1966. Thomas Edwards Boone was born in 1926. He died in 2010.

BOONE, THOMAS EDWARDS, SR., 83, of Anchorage, passed away April 6, 2010 with his family at his side.

He was a native of Elkton, KY, born there on August 31, 1926. Tom retired from the University of Louisville after 25 years of service. He was director of the Rauch Memorial Planetarium and taught nature recreation. He attended both Vanderbilt University and Western Kentucky University where he received his master's degree.

Tom owned the first private camp for boys in Kentucky, Camp Country Boy. He taught at Anchorage Public School and Louisville Collegiate. He was proud to say that over his lifetime he had taught every age child, from pre-school through University.

In his retirement he enjoyed going to estate sales and spending time in the outdoors with his family. He was an avid swimmer and cane collector, who devoted much of his life to teaching young people to appreciate the outdoors. We will remember him as a positive, happy man who had a great love for God and family.

He was a member of Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church.

He is survived by his wife, Mary Gleason Boone; children, Betsy Boone and Thomas E. Boone Jr; grandchildren, Thomas and Mary Louise Boone-Abraham, of Louisville; and sister, Louise Boone Curry, of Georgetown, KY.

A service of celebration for the life of Tom Boone will be held at Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church on Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 3 p.m. His graveside service will be held in the Glenwood Cemetery, Elkton, KY on Monday, April 12, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. EDT. Visitation will be on Saturday April 10, 2010 from 1-4 p.m. at the Pearson-Ratterman Brothers Funeral Home, 12900 Shelbyville Road.

Thomas Edwards Boone and Mary Gleason had the following children:

2535 i. Betsey Boone.
2536 ii. Thomas E. Boone.