Age 87, Lawton - Services will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday in the Holy Cross Lutheran Church with Rev. Don R. Howard, Pastor, officiating. Mrs. Thomas died Saturday in Lawton. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home. She was born March 27, 1921 in Cleveland, Ohio to Michael and Sophie Evanuk Taraski. She grew up in in St. Louis where she graduated high school. She married LTC (Retired) Tom E. Thomas, Jr. on May 10, 1946 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He preceded her in death on January 29, 2002. During World War II she worked as a machinist helper. She moved to Lawton in 1952 and worked in Lawton and Fort Sill and was retired from Civil Service in 1983 having worked for the transportation office. She was a charter member of Holy Cross Lutheran Church. She was also a member of the Society of Military Widows and the Red Hat Society. She was a volunteer for Reynolds Army Community Hospital, Comanche County Memorial Hospital, the American Red Cross and Mobile Meals. She is survived by two sons, Dr. Tom E. Thomas, III and Ralph Burnett; two grandchildren, Sarah D. Thomas and Tom E. Thomas, IV, all of Lawton; two sisters, Helen Meyer, St. Louis, Missouri, and Dottie Steinberg, London, England. Her parents, a brother, Nick Taraski, Potosi, Missouri, and a sister, Marie Ranachowski, Westphalia, Missouri, preceded her in death. Memorial contributions may be made to the Holy Cross Lutheran Church Building Fund, 2105 NW 38th Street, Lawton OK 73505.