THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, February 26, 1981

 

The Rev. Thomas Mabley, 83, minister of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Flagler County from 1968 to 1974, died Feb. 18 at his home in Jacksonville.

Born in Paoli, Pa., he was a graduate of Kenyon College and Virginia Theological Seminary.

Rev. Mabley began his career in 1921 as curate of Trinity Cathedral in Newark and held pastorates in Taylor, Tex­as, EI Reno and Enid, Okla., and Newton, Kan., working part of the time among Cherokee and Arapaho Indians.

He was rector of St. Stevens Episcopal Church in Terre Haute, Ind., for 20 years, coming to this area from there in 1960 to serve as rector of Holy Trinity By the Sea Episcopal Church in Daytona Beach until his retirement in 1966.

Rev. Mabley worked with the American Red Cross, Cancer Society, Mental Health Association, Family Service Associa­tion, Volunteers of America, the Salvation Ar­my and a citizens' smoke abatement committee, all in Terre Haute.

He is survived by his wife, Clara; two sons, Edward of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and Thomas of New York City; a daughter, Lois Horton of Kittery Point, Maine; seven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.