WINDSOR, VT
Thomas G. Rhoad, 75, a longtime resident of Windsor, VT, passed away Thursday morning, October 6, surrounded by his family at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH.
He was born March 18, 1941 in Windsor, the son of Dr. Owen W. and Evelyn (Barris) Rhoad. He received his schooling in Windsor and graduated from Windsor High School in 1959. He then attended and graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH where he earned his Bachelor's Degree in History in 1963. Later that year, he entered the US Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI, receiving his commission as a Naval Officer in 1964. He married his high school sweetheart, Anne Marie Pascarelli, on September 21, 1964 in Falmouth, MA and they took up residence in Norfolk, VA, where he served as a line officer on board the USS Pocono (AGC16) for three years before accepting an assignment to teach history at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. They returned to Windsor in 1970.
He started his long teaching career in Weathersfield, VT and then at Windsor High School, where he taught US History, Psychology and Modern European History and also served as a faculty advisor for the Student Council, until his retirement in 2004.
Mr. Rhoad was a longtime active member of the Old South Congregational Church in Windsor, and a member of the Windsor American Legion Post #25. He was also a member of the Vermont Retired Teachers' Association, and the Mt. Ascutney Ski Patrol.
He was predeceased by one son, Jonathan Rhoad in 2009, and by his parents and one brother, Robert Rutherford Rhoad, in 1957.
Survivors include his loving wife of fifty two years, Anne Rhoad of Windsor; one son, Robert Thomas Rhoad and his wife, Erica, of The Plains, VA; one daughter, Suzanne Ambrose of Windsor; three granddaughters, Brittany Winter, Brooke Winter and Gwendolyn Ambrose, all of Windsor; one brother, David Rhoad and his wife, Barbara of Windsor; two sisters, Eleanor "Boots" Teach and her husband, Dick, of Buffalo, NY and Wendy Rhoad of Portsmouth, NH; and several nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be Sunday, October 9 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM at the Old South Congregational Church at 146 Main Street in Windsor. The funeral service will be held Monday, October 10 at 2:00 PM at the church. Rev. Amanda Lape-Freeberg, Pastor, will officiate. Private committal services with military honors will be held at the convenience of the family in the Ascutney Cemetery in Windsor.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Old South Congregational Church, to benefit The Lift Fund, at PO Box 298, Windsor, VT 05089. The Knight Funeral Home in Windsor is entrusted with the arrangements.