When Thomas Benjamin Kanistanaux was born on 14 August 1914, in Coalmont, Jackson, Colorado, United States, his father, William Harvey Kanistanaux Sr, was 41 and his mother, Plooma Abbey Pearson, was 31. He married Shirley Mae Caruthers on 2 May 1950, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States. He lived in Hebron, Jackson, Colorado, United States in 1920 and Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1941. He died on 8 June 1979, in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States.
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New Testament name, borne by one of Christ's twelve apostles, referred to as ‘Thomas, called Didymus’ (John 11:16; 20:24). Didymos is the Greek word for ‘twin’, and the name is the Greek form of an Aramaic byname meaning ‘twin’. The given name has always been popular throughout Christendom, in part because St Thomas's doubts have made him seem a very human character.
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