Thomas “Tom” Gene Cornwell, a 63-year-old resident of Orange Park, FL, died Monday, Nov. 10, 2003 at Orange Park. He was a native of Spickard.
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Thomas “Tom” Gene Cornwell, a 63-year-old resident of Orange Park, FL, died Monday, Nov. 10, 2003 at Orange Park. He was a native of Spickard.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, Nov. 14, 2003 at Jacksonville Memory Gardens Funeral Home in Orange Park. Rev. Jeffrey Parkkila will officiate. A family visitation is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003 at the funeral home.
Mr. Cornwell was born Sept. 4, 1940 in Spickard, the son of William Eugene and Juanita Margaret Wilburn Cornwell. He graduated from high school in 1958 and enlisted in the U.S. Navy, where he served on destroyer class ships and the battleship USS New Jersey. He was a Vietnam veteran and had served in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. He retired in 1976 with the rank of Master Chief Machinist Mate. After leaving the Navy, he worked for Eagle Technology in Washington, D.C., where he served as the Navy instructor for micro-miniature component repair. He taught extended classes in Puerto Rico, Iceland, Bermuda and California. He later held a technical writer position with Dual and Associates in Washington, D.C. before moving with his family to Orange Park, where he was senior program analyst with CCI, Inc. He was instrumental in their effort to develop and maintain the multi-million aircraft parts warehousing system used tby the U.S. Navy in their foreign military sales program. He held this position untilhis retirement.
He is survived by his wife, Annette Kilpatrick Cornwell; children, Kimberlie Ann (Juanita) Cornwell Snyder and her husband, Sheldon Lee, of Jacksonville, FL, and Clinton Chamber and Anna Marie Cornwell of Middleburg, FL; four grandchildren, Brittany, Lacie, Emma and Thomas; and a sister, Judith Ann Bernard and her husband, Charles, of West Columbia, TX.