Jerry F. Thomas

Mr. Jerry Franklin Thomas, 58, died Thursday, June 1, 2006. A memorial service will be conducted Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. The family will receive friends at Wilkerson Funeral Home prior to the service, beginning at 2 p.m. Mr. Thomas, son of Virginia Thomas and the late Eugene Thomas, was born in White Lake and grew up in Robersonville. A longtime resident of Greenville, he followed in his father's footsteps and worked in his family's logging business. Jerry was passionate about his work and his music. His music talent allowed him to play guitar, piano, harmonica, and most notably to sing. Jerry's music most often was with his sons, daughter, nephew and friends. It was his joy. Jerry was married to the late Dawn Hardister Thomas in 1981. She preceded him in death in 2004. He is survived by his sons, Scott Thomas and Matt Thomas; and daughter, April Thomas, all of Greenville; sisters, Imogene McMillan and husband, Dan, of Evington, Va., Kathy Howell and husband, Jerry, of Apex, Martha Knox and husband, Benny, of Greenville, NC, and Lisa Haislip and husband, James Henry, of Greenville; mother-in-law, Jewel Hardister of Wilson; and brother-in-law Gwyn Hardister and wife Gail of Murrells Inlet, S.C.