Thomas Fisher Craft, Jr.

1924 - 2017  (92 years)

• Name	Thomas Fisher Craft
  Suffix	Jr.
  Nickname	Fisher
  Birth	6 Oct 1924	Macon/Bibb/GA
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 Jun 2017	Woodstock/Cherokee/GA
  Burial	17 Jun 2017	Decatur/Dekalb/GA
  Person ID	I4	Georgia Society Member Graves Registry
  Last Modified	23 Oct 2017

  
  

• Headstones

  Craft, T. Fisher Jr. 33.7799016, -84.2948037

  
  

• Notes

  The son of the late Thomas Fisher Craft and Emily Bridges Craft, Fisher was born and raised in Macon, GA. He attended Winship Grammar School, Lanier High School for Boys, and studied piano and pipe organ at Wesleyan Conservatory. His college career began at Mercer University, but was interrupted by a year of service in the U.S. Army. During his Mercer days, he was elected to a number of honor organizations, including Blue Key. He served as chapel organist and was president of the Alpha Zeta Chapter of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity. Upon graduation he continued as church organist for Centenary Methodist Church while teaching chemistry at Mercer. It was then on to Emory University for a Master of Arts degree in organic chemistry, but more importantly, marriage to Laurel Dean Gray, the girl around the corner, from his early high school days. He worked for Dow Chemical Company for several years, but the lure of academe led him to Georgia Tech, where he earned a Master of Science degree (sanitary engineering) and a PhD (nuclear engineering). As a Senior Research Scientist at Georgia Tech he was involved in basic research fundamental to the disposal of radioactive wastes, and authored or co-authored more than fifty scientific papers and reports. Using radiotracer techniques, he studied water and wastewater problems, and became president of the 2000-member Georgia Water and Pollution Control Association. He was involved in many professional organizations, including American Chemical Society, American Nuclear Society, Health Physics Society, Georgia Academy of Science, American Water Works Association, Water and Pollution Control Federation, and Sigma Xi. He also was a consultant for the Georgia Department of Archives and History where he wrote numerous successful proposals for funding. Notable among them was the ?Vanishing Georgia? project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The book that resulted is still in print. The federal Comprehensive Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1984 was the source of multimillion dollar funding for microfilming probate court records of the counties of Georgia. Woodworking was a lifetime hobby, but upon retirement genealogical research became a major activity, leading to membership in a number of hereditary groups including The General Society of the Colonial Wars, The Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia, Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, The Royal Order of St. George, and a major involvement in The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, including President of the Atlanta Chapter, President of the Georgia Society, Trustee of the Switzerland Society, and Vice President General of the National Society. He was a member of numerous committees, long-time secretary of the Atlanta Chapter, and held the Minute-man Award, the highest honor of the National Society. In his later years he was known for his large repertoire of jokes and puns which he called ?stupid remarks for all occasions?. He was a long-time member of Decatur First United Methodist Church, and is survived by his greatly beloved wife, Laurel Craft, and their wonderful daughter, Deana Craft Trott and her husband, Gary David Trott; grandsons, Michael David Trott and Scott Wesley Trott and his wife, He received the following SAR awards: Meritorious Service, Atlanta Chapter, 1993 President Atlanta Chapter 1993 Meritorious Service, OLC, Georgia, 1994 War Service, Atlanta Chapter, 1995 Liberty, National, 1996 Silver Good Citizenship, Georgia, 1996 Liberty, 1st OLC, National, 1997 Bronze Good Citizenship, Rome Chapter, 1997 Patriot, Georgia, 1997 State Society President mid 1996-mid 1997 Silver Council of State Presidents, National, 1998 Meritorious Service, 2nd OLC, Atlanta Chapter, 2000 Meritorious Service, 3rd OLC, Atlanta Chapter, 2002 Liberty, 2nd OLC, National, 2002 Minuteman, National, 2003 Liberty, 3rd OLC, National Liberty, 4th OLC, National, 2005 Liberty, 5th OLC, National, 2010 Liberty, 6th OLC, National, 2011 Bronze Roger Sherman, Atlanta, 2nd VP 2013-2014 Trustee of the Switzerland Society Vice President General of the National Society SAR His Grave was marked by the Atlanta Chapter GA SAR on 06 Oct 2017.