TITLE:  Thomas Gamble, Jr

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier, July 24, 2001

SUBMITTED BY:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, July 2001

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GAMBLE, JR., Thomas
KINGSTREE - Thomas David Gamble, Jr., 78, died Monday in a Florence 
hospital. Mr. Gamble was born in Henry, S.C., a son of the late Thomas 
David Gamble, Sr., and Mrs. Maude Vause Wilson Gamble. He was a 
graduate of Indiantown High School and was the retired owner of 
Williamsburg Oil Co. in Kingstree. During W.W.II, he served in the 
Army as a platoon leader in the 36th Infantry Division. He was a 
retired firefighter with the Kingstree Fire Dept., and was one of the 
founders and a retired Chief of the Kingstree Rural Fire Dept. Mr. 
Gamble was a member of and Deacon of Williamsburg Presbyterian Church,
a Mason, a member of the V.F.W. and American Legion, and had served as
president of Sportsmen's Hunting Club since 1985. Surviving, his wife, 
Mrs. Belver Scott Gamble, one son, Thomas D. Gamble, III, of Nesmith, 
two daughters, Eva Towne G. Saltik of Marietta, Ga., and Elizabeth Anne
G. Cusack of Indiantown, one brother, Harry Gamble of Hemingway, one 
sister, Margie Shepard of Washington, N.C., five grandchildren, Holly 
Gamble, Monique Saltik, Ryan Saltik, and Hailey Wilson, one 
great-grandchild, Evie Jane Wilson. Funeral services will be 11 a.m., 
Wednesday in the Williamsburg Presbyterian Church, conducted by Rev. 
Samuel Shumate. Burial will be in Kingstree Memorial Gardens, directed 
by WILLIAMSBURG FUNERAL HOME. The family will receive friends from 7 to
9 p.m., Tuesday, at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to 
Williamsburg Presbyterian Church Building Fund or to the National 
W.W.II memorial fund. (The Post and Courier July 24, 2001)
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