Thomas P. Fay, age 84, of the Christian Park Village in Escanaba (formerly of Country Acres in Gladstone) died Sunday morning October 24, 2004 at the Christian Park Village in Escanaba where he was a resident.
Thomas was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and he served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945. While serving in the U.S. Army Air Force he was stationed in Tunisia in the European Air Offensive. He was honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant in1945 and he received the EAME Theater Ribbon with 2 Bronze Stars and the Good Conduct Ribbon. Following his duty in the service he returned to Delta County and was united in marriage to the former Carrie M. Breitzman on December 4, 1948 in Rapid River. He had worked at Morley Murphy in Escanaba in the early 1950