Thomas “Tom” Ainsworth 98 years. Passed away peacefully on Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 at Pioneer Manor.
Tom was born on September 5th, 1922 and grew up in Westfort in Fort William ON. He moved to Geraldton in his early twenties and worked at Hard Rock Gold Mines as a surveyor helper and then as a surveyor. He met the love of his life, his wife Signe (nee Hermanson) predeceased in 2002, while there. He returned to university and obtained his Mining Engineer degree, then he and Signe moved to Atikokan where he was employed with Steep Rock Iron Mines, they had three boys Tom, Jim & John while living in Atikokan. Due to a mine closure Thomas went into teaching high school which took the family all the way to Delhi in Southern Ontario. Then it was on to Sudbury in 1966 where he worked as a teacher at Lockerby Composite High School until his retirement in 1986. His favorite saying was “To get the answer just crank the handle.” He thoroughly enjoyed his place on Manitoulin Island wher