Thomas Richard Deater Sr.

Thomas R. Deater Sr., 77 of Frederick MD, died peacefully on February 26, 2021. Born in Frederick MD, to the late Clarence and Rita Deater; loving husband to the late Nancy O’Hara Deater. Father to Thomas Deater, Jr. and wife Roberta, he was the loving brother to the late Susie Deater. Tom Served in Vietnam as a sharpshooter for the US Army. His hobbies included fishing, horse racing, the Dallas Cowboys, country music, gardening, Lionel trains, bingo, watching westerns on TV, walking in either walkathons, or crop walking, or mall walking, blood donations, duckpin bowling and playing Santa Claus for the greater Frederick area. He worked for Carmack Jays, Everready, Eastalco., Great Frederick Fair. In lieu of flowers the family requests that you plant a tomato plant in your garden this summer in his memory. Arrangements entrusted to Keeney and Basford P.A. Funeral Home.