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Oliver Clark Thomas (view source)
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'''Oliver Clark Thomas''' (March 24, 1914—December 16, 2008)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?lastname=Thomas&firstname=Oliver&start=121|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=Rootsweb.ancestry.com|access date=May 11, 2009}}</ref> was a decorated [[prisoner of war]] held by the [[Japan]]ese during [[World War II]] who later as a Lubbock, [[Texas]], businessman headed the trade group, the Texas Good Roads/Transportation Association.
'''Oliver Clark Thomas''' (March 24, 1914—December 16, 2008)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?lastname=Thomas&firstname=Oliver&start=121|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=Rootsweb.ancestry.com|access date=May 11, 2009}}</ref> was a decorated [[prisoner of war]] held by the [[Japan]]ese during [[World War II]] who later as a Lubbock, [[Texas]], businessman headed the trade group, the Texas Good Roads and Transportation Association.
Thomas was born in Hereford in Deaf Smith County in the Texas Panhandle but moved thereafter with his parents near [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]], first to Greenville in Hunt County and then to Kaufman, where he was awarded [[Eagle Scout]] designation in 1930 and graduated two years later from Kaufman High School. He attended [[Southern Methodist University]] in Dallas and later [[Texas Tech University]] in Lubbock, from which he graduated.<ref name=Thomas>{{cite web|url= http://lubbockonline.com/stories/121908/obi_369256589.shtml|title=Obituary of Oliver C. Thomas|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|access date=May 11, 2009}}</ref>
Thomas was born in Hereford in Deaf Smith County in the Texas Panhandle but moved thereafter with his parents near [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]], first to Greenville in Hunt County and then to Kaufman, where he was awarded [[Eagle Scout]] designation in 1930 and graduated two years later from Kaufman High School. He attended [[Southern Methodist University]] in Dallas and later [[Texas Tech University]] in Lubbock, from which he graduated.<ref name=Thomas>{{cite web|url= http://lubbockonline.com/stories/121908/obi_369256589.shtml|title=Obituary of Oliver C. Thomas|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|access date=May 11, 2009}}</ref>