Thomas Herman Patnode

Tom Patnode was born September 22, 1926 in Schenectady, New York, to Linus Victor Patnode and Regina Mary Caron Patnode.

The youngest of three children, he grew up in Schenectady, New York, and graduated high school at Mont Pleasant High School in 1944.

Patnode entered the US Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey on February 7, 1945 and was honorably discharged on October 18, 1946 with the rank of Sergeant. He was an instructor at Fort Knox, Kentucky, where he taught classes on the 75, 76, and 90 millimeter guns and supervised trainees in the use of the weapons in field exercises.

Thomas Patnode received a Bachelor of Science on June 8, 1953, from New York State College for Teachers at Buffalo, New York.

His Master of Arts degree was conferred on December 18, 1957, from Columbia University in the city of New York.

In 1983 Tom retired as an art teacher from the New Jersey school system and moved from Boonton, New Jersey to Inglis, Florida where he lived until 2014 when he moved to Morningside Assisted Living in Decatur, Alabama.

He is preceded in death by his parents; his brother, Richard Ambrose Patnode; his sister, Dorothy Joan Patnode Sutton; his brother-in-law, Walter Markancel Sutton; and his nephew, Jeffrey David Walter Sutton.

Survivors include nieces and nephews; Caron (Brian) Widgren, Mary (Terry) Rutherford, Carl (Jan) Sutton, Billy Sutton, Bobbie (Frank) Talbert and a long list of great nieces and nephews.