Thomas “Tom” Marshall Wood, 65, of Austin, TX passed away on Sunday, May 19, 2024.
A graveside service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, November 2, 2024, at Riverside Cemetery in Hopkinsville, KY. Hughart, Beard & Giles is in charge of the arrangements.
A native of Palm Beach, FL he was born May 17, 1959, to Susan Andrew Wood and Marshall Baird Wood. He graduated from Vanderbilt University with a bachelor’s in math and computer science in 1982 and a master’s in computer science in 1983. He married his college sweetheart, Anne Carr Gilman, in 1982 in Shelbyville, KY. He had two children, Elizabeth and Andrew. He worked as a computer engineer for Data General in Research Triangle Park, NC, and a short stent with Next Computers in Redwood City, CA before relocating the family to Austin, TX in 1994. In Austin, he worked for Motorola, and then a start-up company called Wintegra. He retired in 2002.
He enjoyed coaching his kids in soccer and bicycling. He regularly participated in the MS150. He also completed a bike ride across Texas, the southeast coast, and Maine. During his retirement, he volunteered with Meals on Wheels, as well as trained his beloved dog, Daisy, to be a therapy dog. Tom and Daisy would frequently visit people in assisted living, nursing homes, and the hospital.
Tom is survived by his wife: Anne Wood; his children: Elizabeth Snyder and Andrew Wood; his grandchildren: Theodore, Kathleen, and Jeremy Thomas Snyder; and his sisters: Betty Wood and Leslie Wood.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the MS Society.
