Thomas Reese Gwillim

Born: ♂ Thomas Reese Gwillim (Tom)

April 19, 1921

Bristol, CT

Died: August 28, 2007

Farmington, CT

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Spouse: Dorothy Marsh Gwillim

Children: Thomas Edward Gwillim, Robert Marsh Gwillim

Parents: Harland Dennett Gwillim and Lila Wellman Gwillim

Siblings: Betty Gwillim Carlson and Ruth Lila Gwillim Dittman

Half Sibling: John Dennett Gwillim

Education

Pennsylvania College of Optometry, graduated 1943.

Career

Served in World War II as Army Air Corps first lieutenant.

Optometrist in Bristol. Retired 1980.

Anecdotes

(Reed Gwillim Law Jr. writes:) Steven and I were collecting used stamps in the early 1960s, trying to get as big a pile of them as we could. Tommy saved all the stamps that Bausch & Lomb used to mail him his orders of prescription eyeglasses, and gave them to us. In the 1980s, I remember Dorothy and Tommy showing us a needlepoint that carefully depicted their house in street view. I think Tommy had made it.

Faith

First Church of Christ Congregational, Bristol