Obituary: Thomas John Smaha
SCARBOROUGH - Thomas John Smaha passed away on Jan. 7, 2021 from natural causes at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center .
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Thomas John Smaha
SCARBOROUGH – Thomas John Smaha passed away on Jan. 7, 2021 from natural causes at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He passed peacefully surrounded by his loving family. Tom’s warmth, kindness, concern for others and humor were shining to the very end. He lived his life to the fullest.
Tom was born in Portland on Oct. 3, 1943, the son of John and Agnes (Lahood) Smaha. He spent the first years of his life growing up in Portland. Tom graduated from Deering High School and attended North Yarmouth Academy. He went on to college at the University of Southern Maine in Portland and graduated from the University of Maine, Orono in 1966, where he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, with a B.S. degree in Business. It was at UMO where he met his wife of 54 years, Mary Kathleen Doe.