William Thomas              (Tom)   Hubbard             1948-2004                                 

     Tom was born in Dubuque, Iowa on December 12th, 1948. He spent his childhood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he attended Grant Wood    Elementary School, McKinley Junior High School, and graduated from Washington High School.                          

     After high school, he attended Ole Miss where he pledged Kappa Sigma fraternity. He served in the US Navy with tours in Guam and on an ammunition ship in Vietnam.                     

     He married Rebecca Barnard in Martinsville, VA in 1972.                          

     Always driven to adventure, Tom entered the oil business and worked in the Middle East on oilrigs in Oman, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. His son, Colin Andrew was born in Athens in 1977 when he and Becky lived there while Tom commuted to the Middle East to work.

     A career opportunity opened up for Tom to expand Asian operations for Eastman Whipstock and the family moved to Singapore. Tom traveled extensively during that time throughout SE Asian and China. They relocated to Manila, Philippines where his daughter Conor Elizabeth was born in 1982. They moved back to Singapore for another opportunity before coming back to the States in 1986.

     They lived in Atlanta, GA until Tom and Becky divorced and Tom spent his last years in Las Vegas, NV. He died of complications after being in a car accident on January 21, 2004. Services were held in Dallas, TX.

     Tom’s two children are flourishing young adults. Colin is married to Ashley Chapman Hubbard and living in Atlanta where he manages construction projects for a  real estate developer. Conor is married to Daniel Rubin. They live in the Boston area, where she is the active mother of a son, William Wyatt born 2014.