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Thomas Joseph Skerry
Thomas J. Skerry, 81, a retired detective for the City of Malden, where he worked for twenty-five years, died Thursday evening, July 21, 2005 at Charlene Manor in Greenfield, MA after a long illness. Tom was born in Malden and educated at Malden Catholic High School, where he excelled in football in the early 40’s and helped his team to go on and win the state championship. After his schooling he joined the U.S. Army during WW II and was assigned with the Military Police and served eighteen months overseas with Headquarters Co., 1st. Airborne Army in Scotland, England, France, Belgium and Germany. He fought in the battles in Northern France, Rhineland, and the Battle of the Bulge. He received the Good Conduct Medal, American Theater Campaign Ribbon, Victory Medal, and European African Middle Eastern Theater Campaign Ribbon. After returning from the war he married Gladys L. Holmberg in the Immaculate Conception Church on April 25, 1948 and the couple settled in Malden and raised their two children. Tom worked for the Simmons Mattress Company as an inspector for the next ten years. He joined the Malden Police Force in 1957 as a patrolman and was promoted to Inspector in 1974. He retired in 1981 after twenty-five years of service to the city. After his retirement he worked as a courier with the Century Bank in Medford and finally retired in 1987. In 1988 Tom and Gladys moved to South Deerfield where they have lived for the last seventeen years. He is survived by his wife Gladys L. Skerry, his son Thomas J. Skerry Jr. and his wife Christina Doyle of Medford, his daughter Janine E. Skerry and her husband Edgard Moreno of Williamsburg, VA, brothers John J. Skerry of Stoneham and Peter E. Skerry of Everett, and grandson David A. & Peter O. Skerry both of Medford. He was preceded in death by his father Peter Skerry and his mother Ellen Kelly. Visitation will be held at Weir~ MacCuish Golden Rule Funeral Home, 144 Salem St., Malden, on Sunday, July 24th. from 2-4 & 7-9. Funeral from the Weir-Mac Cuish Golden Rule Funeral Home, 144 Salem St., Malden on Monday , July 25, 2005 at 9:30AM, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial in the Immaculate Conception Church, 600 Pleasant St. Malden at 10:30 AM. The Rev. Richard J Mehm, will be the celebrant. Cremation will follow in the Woodlawn Crematory, Everett with interment in Brookside Cemetery, Deerfield, MA at a later date. Contributions may be made in Tom’s memory to the Salvation Army, 213 Main St., Malden, MA 02148 or the Salvation Army, 72 Chapman St., Greenfield, MA 01301
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