THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, December 15, 1960
Circuit Judge Thomas N. Tappy passed away early Saturday morning at a Daytona Beach hospital after being stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage Friday afternoon.
Judge Tappy resided at his home on Sunset Terrace in Daytona Beach.
Funeral service was held in Daytona Beach Monday morning and the remains were sent to Arlington Cemetery in Washington for interment.
Judge Tappy was 66 years of age and had practiced law in Volusia County for 29 years.
He has served as attorney for the City of Daytona Beach, the Board of County Commissioners and County School Board. He also has been Municipal Judge of Daytona Beach.
He attended the University of Virginia, his home state, and received his law degree from Georgetown University. He is a past president of the Volusia Bar Association.
He was appointed County Judge in 1954, was elected to the post in 1956, but resigned in 1958 when he was elected Circuit Judge.
During six years of service in World War II, he was chairman of the Board of Review for the Judge Advocate General of the Air Force. After his release from active duty, with the rank of Colonel, he was named associate general counsel of the Economic Stabilization Agency and later became its general counsel.
In 1951 he was appointed counsel to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the U. S. Senate.
His military career also included duty as a pilot in England and Scotland in World War One.
