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Walsh served as vice mayor in 1999 and as mayor in 2000, positions which selected among the city council annually by the Casper City Council. He served three nonconsecutive stints on the city council, 1997, 1999–2002, and 2008.[2] He was elected to the legislature in 2002, 2004, and 2006. He resigned his House seat in January 2008, after having been stricken with leukemia, which ultimately claimed his life at the age of sixty-seven on New Year's Day, 2010. Years earlier, Walsh had been a volunteer firefighter in Casper. As mayor, he launched the Natrona County Adult Drug Court.[3]
Walsh was a long-term educator in Natrona County, having been a teacher in Lovell, the principal of Midwest School, Pineview Elementary,[6] and Dean Morgan Junior High School, and then an assistant superintendent of the Natrona County School District. He also taught for a time at a college in Wisconsin. He and his wife, the former Rita Marie Christensen (born 1943), his sweetheart from Thermopolis High School, married in 1963. A retired educator, Mrs. Walsh is a member of the Natrona County School Board. They had two sons, Thomas, Jr., an accountant, and Christopher E. Walsh, a Casper police captain[6] and four grandchildren.[7] He had an affiliated with the Salvation Army, the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary International, the Army Reserve Officers Association, the Cowboy Joe Club, and the University of Wyoming Alumni Association.[5]
Veterans issues
On September 17, 2009, Walsh was honored by the Salvation Army, where he cooked breakfast for the indigent every Thursday morning. Governor Freudenthal also proclaimed "Tom Walsh Day" in Wyoming. At the ceremony, Freudenthal said, "The truth is we're all grains of sand, and all of it disappears. Veterans and our deployed folks owe Tom a great debt of gratitude for all of his work on their behalf."[8] The governor recalled having sent Walsh, then a state legislator, on a fact-finding mission to Mississippi to determine if National Guard troops were being treated comparably to active duty military personnel: "We stirred the pot, caused a fair amount of trouble, and the end result was that we were able to ensure that our Guard folks got the same equipment, training, and degree of respect as the regular military", Freudenthal said.[8]
Walsh made fourteen trips[8] at his own expense to Southeast Asia to investigate reports of American servicemen being held there after the conclusion of the Vietnam War.[4] He visited Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand.[7] The POW/MIA flag flies on state buildings because of Walsh's legislative endeavors.[6] Ironically, though he served in the Army and Army Reserves from 1959–1995, he was not called to active duty during the Vietnam War, a source of reportedly "great disappointment" to Walsh.[8] Casper Fire Chief Mark Young called Walsh "a role model for all of us. We can learn compassion and that selfless attitude toward others from him."[8] Victor Doughty of the Salvation Army's Denver office compared Walsh to the Salvation Army's founder, William Booth of England: "They lived their lives for God and country, for family and community."[8]
Death and legacy
Walsh's funeral service was held on January 4, 2010, at the chapel of the Oregon Trail State Veterans Cemetery in Evansville, a facility expanded through Walsh's legislative efforts. Pastor Ellis Kaster fought back tears as he presided over the services.[9] Military honors were performed by the Wyoming Army National Guard and the Natrona County United Veterans Council. Walsh had himself participated through the council in more than 550 military burials.[7]
After his illness, Walsh accepted a five-month appointment to the city council. The Casper Tribune wrote that he "never stopped caring about Casper and its people. He will indeed be missed."[10] Casper Circuit Judge Mike Huber called Walsh "a giant who will be missed . . . a measure of a man's worth is if he left this world a better place than he found it."[3]
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