Know your Neighbor: Tom Thompson

  • Tom Thompson is an Eatonton resident. IAN TOCHER/Staff
    Tom Thompson is an Eatonton resident. IAN TOCHER/Staff
  • The octagonal atrium representing the second floor of Tom and Pam Thompson’s unique home at the east end of Eatonton is all that’s readily visible above ground. IAN TOCHER/Staff
    The octagonal atrium representing the second floor of Tom and Pam Thompson’s unique home at the east end of Eatonton is all that’s readily visible above ground. IAN TOCHER/Staff
    About a week before Tom Thompson turned 90 this June, he marked the milestone not with quiet retreat, but renewed vigor.Just days before his birthday, he was in a Gainesville hospital undergoing a robotic heart valve repair. He was back home in Eatonton within less than 48 hours.“I can walk for miles now,” Thompson happily reported. “I couldn’t before, but I can now, and I...

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