Citadel Alumni Obituaries

Thomas Walker Dion was born on November 7, 1975 in Charleston, SC. He was a
member of the Class of 1998 at The Citadel, arriving as a member of the
Corps a century after his great-grandfather, Lawrence Adams Walker and
thirty years after his father. After obtaining his BS and MS in Computer
Science, he went to work for the Space and Naval Warfare Center in
Charleston, SC. He was a software engineer who did contract work for the
Department of Defense, including a year in Stuttgart, Germany. He spent 2011
at the Department of Commerce in Washington, DC. He left his family and
friends on July 4, 2012 to be with his Lord and Savior. He will be loved and
missed by his parents Thomas and Susan Dion, his brother Cameron Richardson
Dion, his maternal grandmother Mary Carter Richardson and his paternal
grandfather Raymond Octave Dion, all of Summerville. He is also survived by
his uncle David Lewis Richardson, Jr. of Summerville, his uncle William
Bryan Richardson of Walterboro, his uncle William Humphreys Dion of
Charleston and two aunts Eleanor Walker Nault of Easley and Mary Dion
Georgion of West Union. He was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church where
he had served for many years as an acolyte, crucifer, lay reader and usher.
He was an active member of the Episcopal Young Churchmen and St. Paul’s
Church Basketball League. He was a lifetime member of the Association of
Citadel Men. Visitation will be Monday night from 6 until 8 p.m. at PARKS
FUNERAL HOME. Funeral services will be held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
on Tuesday morning July 10, 2012 at 11 a.m. A reception will follow in Doar
Hall. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, 316 W. Carolina Avenue, Summerville SC 29483, to the
Citadel Foundation, 171 Moultrie Street, Charleston, SC 29409 or to the
Medical University of South Carolina Foundation (Alopecia Research Support
(Department of Dermatology), 18 Bee Street, MSC 450, Charleston, SC 29425.
Arrangements by PARKS FUNERAL HOME, 130 West 1st North Street, Summerville,
SC 29483. Visit our guestbook at www.legacy.com/obituaries/ charleston.

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