GUILDERLAND Thomas Martin Reimer died on Sunday, April 2, 2023, at home surrounded by family in Guilderland. “Inspired by the Japanese poet Basho,” his family wrote in a tribute, “he met death ‘gracefully.’ “He was born Oct. 11, 1956 in New York City, as the oldest child of chemical engineer Ulrich Max Reimer and Waltraut Martha B.