This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thweatt, Giardino, White Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8486 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 17 Mar 2005 Thweatt BRYAN - Services for W. Tom Thweatt III, 29, were held at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 12, 2005, at Hillier Funeral Home in Bryan. Internment followed at College Station Cemetery in College Station. Mr. Thweatt died in an automobile accident on March 9. He was born June 16, 1975, in Houston. He grew up in the greater Houston area and lived with his family on assignment to Algeria, London and The Hague, graduating as salutatorian of his high school class at The American School in The Hague. Mr. Thweatt returned to the states to attend Texas A&M University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology, Magna Cum Laude, in only three years. He worked in College Station for a few years in the restaurant business with Café Excel and Freebird’s, then returned to the Mays Business School at Texas A&M and earned an MBA. At the time of his death, Mr. Thweatt was within a few months of earning his second master’s degree, this one in counseling psychology at Sam Houston State University. He planned to purse his doctorate in psychology in spiritual counseling to become a professor of psychology and practicing counselor. It was in his teaching, as a graduate student, where Mr. Thweatt discovered his passion and love for teaching. His teaching became another avenue for Tom to help and give back to all those around him. He married Anne-Marie Giardino on Aug. 9, 2003. They enjoyed camping, hiking, skiing, and outdoor activities, especially in the mountains of Colorado. They shared a passion for the Lakota’s Red Road, where Mr. Thweatt was a drummer and singer of the Native American songs in the native language. Mr. Thweatt was preceded in death by his grandfather W. T. (Bill) Thweatt of Rockdale and later Georgetown, and his grandparents, Eldridge and Connie White of Rockdale. Survivors are his wife, Anne-Marie, nee Giardino, of Bryan; his parents, Tom and Lou Thweatt of Katy; his extended Thweatt family, including his grandmother, Pauline Thweatt of Georgetown; a sister, Tamra and husband Kevin Appling and sons Robbie and Christopher of Richmond, VA; his extended Giardino family, including Anne-Marie’s parents Rick and Fran Giardino of Bryan; Anne-Marie’s grandparents John and Margaret Giardino of Pueblo, CO; also, numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and in-laws.