Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Thomas II SPACKMAN
Thomas Spackman II, 86, a retired public relations worker and civic activist who lived on Griest Road, Peach Bottom, died Saturday at St. Joseph Hospital after a long illness.
Spackman, who retired to a farm in Fulton Township in 1972 after a career in public relations, led citizens in successfully opposing a proposed nuclear power plant in southern Lancaster County in the 1970s.
His public relations career spanned several decades. Spachman worked for E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company in Wilmington and also with the Florida First National Banks of Jacksonville, the Florida East Coat Railway, and the St. Joe Paper Co.
A year after Spackman moved to Fulton Township, Philadelphia Electric Co. proposed building an additional nuclear power plant along the lower Susquehanna River. Spackman would have lost his farm had the plant been erected.
Spackman helped form Save Solanco's Environment Conservation Fund and the Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power citizens groups, both of which fought the proposed plant. In 1978, the company withdrew its proposal.
Spackman also served as vice chairman of the Fulton Township Planning Commission and was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Lancaster County Planning Commission.
An avid bridge player, he was a director of the Wilmington Whist Club. He was interested in tennis, language studies, archaeology, soil conservation and forestry.
Educated at the Wilmington Friends School, he graduated from Princeton University in 1931.
He was the husband of Geraldine Spackman.
Born in Wilmington, Del., he was the son of the late George H. and Alice P. Mode Spackman.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Barbara, wife of John Guerrin, Wilmington, Del., and Virginia King, of Jasper, Ark., three stepdaughters, Margaret, wife of W. Heywood Myers, Willsboro, N.Y.; Janice Earle, wife of Peter Jampel, Staten Island, N.Y., and Judith Earle, Jacksonville Beach, Fla., a stepson, Timothy Earle, West Palm Beach, Fla., 12 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
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