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IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Thomas Greeley
Winter
April 21, 1927 – February 20, 2011
Obituary
Thomas Greeley Winter died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Tulsa after a long battle with Parkinson disease.
He was born on April 21, 1927, in Glendale, California, to Clare and Frank Winter. He served briefly in the U.S. Navy in 1945, then entered Stanford University and graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1949.
The next several years found him selling heavy equipment for Westinghouse, setting up a plastics factory in Chile, working for the U.S. Government, and finally enrolling at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. from which he received his PhD in Applied Physics in 1961, the same year he married his wife Josephine Grasselli.
Tom taught physics and supervised graduate work at OSU from 1963 – 1973. In 1973 he moved his growing family to Tulsa to become chairman of the Physics Department at Tulsa University where he taught for the next ten years. In Tulsa, he was a member of Christ the King, the Tulsa Tennis Club and the Summit.
He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Josephine, sons Thomas A., of Sao Paolo, Brazil, Frank E. and daughter-in-law Jennifer, of Telluride, CO; William H. of Tulsa; and daughter Clare M. of Ashland, OR; and six beloved grand-children.
His memorial service will be at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 26, at Christ the King Catholic Church, 16th and Quincy Avenue.
Friends can honor his memory by making donations to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, 1359 Broadway, #1509, New York, NY 10018.
He was born on April 21, 1927, in Glendale, California, to Clare and Frank Winter. He served briefly in the U.S. Navy in 1945, then entered Stanford University and graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1949.
The next several years found him selling heavy equipment for Westinghouse, setting up a plastics factory in Chile, working for the U.S. Government, and finally enrolling at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. from which he received his PhD in Applied Physics in 1961, the same year he married his wife Josephine Grasselli.
Tom taught physics and supervised graduate work at OSU from 1963 – 1973. In 1973 he moved his growing family to Tulsa to become chairman of the Physics Department at Tulsa University where he taught for the next ten years. In Tulsa, he was a member of Christ the King, the Tulsa Tennis Club and the Summit.
He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Josephine, sons Thomas A., of Sao Paolo, Brazil, Frank E. and daughter-in-law Jennifer, of Telluride, CO; William H. of Tulsa; and daughter Clare M. of Ashland, OR; and six beloved grand-children.
His memorial service will be at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 26, at Christ the King Catholic Church, 16th and Quincy Avenue.
Friends can honor his memory by making donations to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, 1359 Broadway, #1509, New York, NY 10018.
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