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Graveside Service:
10:00 a.m. Saturday September 30, 2017 at
Steenbergen Cemetery in Mount Pulaski
Funeral home:
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, Mount Pulaski
Obituary
Thomas Kindred, 82, of Ocala, Florida, and formerly
of Beason, passed away Tuesday August 15th due to
complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
Tom was born on April 11, 1935 to Edward and Nellie
Kindred of Beason Illinois. He was the second
youngest of seven children. Tom attended the little
Mt. Zion country school first grade through sixth
grade. He would walk to school and start the fire in
the wood stove to warm up the school house before
the others arrived. Tom went to Beason grade school
for 7th and 8th grade and then Beason high school
where he played on the baseball team all four years
and on the basketball team the first two years. He
was raised and worked on the family farm, and was
particularly successful raising and showing sheep on
the Illinois Fair circuit. Tom was a member of FFA
throughout high school and was on the stock judging
team, served as Vice President and as a reporter.
Tom married Judith Anderson of Mount Pulaski, on
January 2, 1960. Tom and Judy set up house in
Lincoln where Tom was a barber and Judy taught
school. They had three children; Doug, Rodney,
Debra, and later an adopted daughter, Debbie. Tom
also served in the Army Reserves as a cook. His next
career was in food service management and he held
several positions throughout the Southern U.S. with
ARA Services of Philadelphia, PA.
Tom raced quarter horses in South Alabama, North
Florida, Mississippi, and Texas in the 1970s. He
found the tack, horseshoes and equipment to be
pricey and hard to find, so he started finding
manufacturers, buying direct for his own use and to
sell to the other horsemen. |
Tom and Judy moved to Ocala, Florida in 1985 and
started a successful race horse equipment business,
T.T. Distributors Incorporated, selling racehorse
tack and supplies, horseshoes, farrier supplies,
supplements, and everything you need for your
racehorse. He was also an avid sportsman, frequently
traveling and enjoying pheasant, duck and goose
hunting, deer, moose and elk hunting, and salmon and
trout fishing. He is survived by his wife Judy,
daughter Debra Barber, and son Doug Kindred, all of
Ocala, FL, his son Rodney Kindred of Pipe Creek,
Texas, adopted daughter Debbie Poiroux of Kirksey
Kentucky, and his sisters Dorothy Gosda, Doris
Reinhart, and Joanne Lee. Tom had nine
grandchildren. Tom lived a full life; he will be
greatly missed.
Graveside services for Thomas will be 10:00 a.m.
Saturday September 30, 2017 at Steenbergen Cemetery
in Mount Pulaski, with Rev. Zoila Marty.
Services entrusted to Fricke-Calvert-Schrader
Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski.
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