THOMAS RAY WINDHAM


FORT WORTH -- Thomas Ray Windham, 61, Fort Worth Police Chief for the 
last 15 years, went to be in the presence of the Lord on Wednesday, 
Jan. 12, 2000, in Fort Worth in the first month of the millennium.

Celebration of Life: 2 p.m. Tuesday at the sanctuary of First United 
Methodist Church, 801 W. First St., Fort Worth. Officiant and eulogist: 
Dr. Kenneth Wayne Day, senior pastor. Eulogist amenities will be given 
by Congresswomen Kay Granger and the Rev. W.G. Daniels. Music will be 
provided by the Fort Worth Police Choir. Burial: Greenwood Memorial 
Park, where a horse drawn carriage will carry the coffin from the 
bronze horses of Saint Marks to the grave. Visitation: 6 to 9 p.m. 
Monday in the Independence Chapel at Greenwood Mausoleum. Bearers of 
bier will be the Fort Worth Police Honor Guard.

Thomas Ray Windham was born on June 29, 1938, in Jonesboro.A marvelous
life began on June 29, 1938, in Jonesboro, Hamilton County, Texas, 
when Henry Thomas and Edna Merle Humes Windham gave birth to two boys, 
twins, Thomas Ray and Allen Roy Windham. Two babies that would bond as 
two boys and all through life sharing the friendship of brotherhood in 
that small central Texas town. Thomas grew up and matriculated in the 
Hamilton public schools and graduated from Hamilton High School. It was
at the age of 13 that Tom accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his 
personal savior and was baptized in the Leon River as a part of the 
Olin Baptist Church. From 1959 until his death, he spent a lifetime in 
public service.

	When I have done the things
	that God has placed me here to do
	and then He calls me home
	satisfied that my work in through
	I hope that people will say
	that I lived a life complete
	then my soul can be at rest
	knowing that I met my God in peace.
Gregory W. Spencer - Copyright

Survivors: He leaves with sweet memories a loving and devoted wife of 
35 years, Maria Klein Windham of Fort Worth; daughters, Johanna Johnson 
and her husband, Jimmy, of Fort Worth and Kathleen Dower and her 
husband, Nathan, of Richardson; brothers, his twin, Allen Roy Windham 
and his wife, Susie, of Purcevile, Va., and Jerry Windham and his wife,
Pat, of College Station; sister, Gail Windham of San Pedro, Calif.; 
grandchildren, Darryl Nuncio of Richardson, Michael Eurton and Katie 
Johnson, both of Fort Worth; and many nephews, nieces, great- nephews 
and great-nieces.

Greenwood Funeral Home
3100 White Settlement Road, 336-0584