John Thomas Graham – 50th Reunion Essay

John Thomas Graham

Date of Death: 17-Nov-2012

College: Branford

(This memorial was published in the Seattle Times and reprinted on the Class Website.)

John Thomas (Thom) Graham passed away unexpectedly on November 17, 2012 due to complications from a farming incident. Thom was born on August 11, 1947 in Seattle, and grew up in the Queen Anne area. He went to school at Queen Anne Elementary, Lakeside School, and then at Andover Phillips Academy, in Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale University in 1969.

He was the youngest child of Jack and Marjorie Graham, of Seattle. Thom is survived by his three children, Ian Graham (Ponte Vedra, Florida), Rose Graham (Asheville, North Carolina), and Heather Graham (Seattle Washington), his two grandchildren, and his two sisters, Jane Sutherland (La Quinta California) and Barbara Graham (Miami Shores, Florida).

Thom was an architect in the family firm, John Graham and Co., during the 1980s, and then self-employed during the 1990s. Thom was an avid gardener, tinkerer, inventor, sculptor, bee keeper, and bread maker. When he moved to his farm in 2010, he raised cattle, sheep, goats, chickens, pigs and more in a remodeled turn-of-the-century barn on the Olympic Peninsula.