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Francis "Bud" Thomas Jr.
Arlington Judge
Francis Everett "Bud" Thomas Jr., 66, a judge of Arlington County's General District Court, died Dec. 29 at Arlington Hospital after a heart attack.
Judge Thomas had served on the Arlington court since the early 1980s and before that had been a part-time judge in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.
As a judge, he had performed several marriages, including weddings for actors Richard Burton and Peter Lawford , actress Lana Turner and then-Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.
A resident of Arlington, he was born in Washington. He graduated from St. Paul's High School in Washington and from American University and its law school. He also studied accounting at Benjamin Franklin University.
During the 1950s, he served in the Army, then practiced law in Arlington for 23 years before he became a judge.
He was a member of the Washington Golf and Country Club and the Knights of Columbus.
His wife of 27 years, Frances Trimm Thomas, died in 1987. Survivors include a daughter, Dana M. Thomas Berbert of Sandy Spring, four stepdaughters, Sherry Holdbrooks of Chesapeake, Va., Beverly Wilkins and Lori Hudson, both of Dale City, and Christie Hudson of Minnesota; and three step-grandchildren.
(The Washington Post - Saturday, December 31, 1994)
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Nobody Paid The Judge
Judge Francis E. Thomas of Arlington, Va. didn't know for sure until an hour before the ceremony that he was going to tie the nuptial knot for Henry Kissinger and Nancy Maginnes. But he'd certainly had hints. Starting at Christmastime, a Washington lawyer put him on call to marry "a high government official" at a moment's notice. "I guessed right from the beginning that it was Kissinger," avers Thomas, 45, who is a juvenile and domestic court judge. "But I didn't think he would make it this week. I'd read in the papers he was in Moscow."
Kissinger wore a blue business suit, white shirt and a bright blue necktie; his bride-to-be was dressed in a gold-flecked beige suit with a matching furtrimmed coat. "They promised to love and to cherish," Thomas recalls. "But there was no mention of God. And there were no rings. I don't think they had time to get them."
It was a relaxed ceremony. "There were no tears," Judge Thomas says. "His children were quiet. I congratulated him and called her Mrs. Kissinger. She looked a little startled and stepped back. They all do. He kissed her and they held hands. Then there was embracing and handshaking all around."
In the excitement, neither Kissinger nor his aides remembered to pay Judge Thomas for his services. "I usually get $25 for a wedding," says Thomas, who once collected $100 when he married off Lana Turner. Whether or not Henry comes through with the cash, the wedding has been a bonanza for Thomas's marrying business. The judge usually gets two or three calls a day from couples. The Monday after marrying the Kissingers, he had 25.
(From "Just Henry and Nancy and the Diplomatic Pouch" - People Magazine - April 15, 1974 - Vol. 1 No. 7)
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Francis "Bud" Thomas Jr.
Arlington Judge
Francis Everett "Bud" Thomas Jr., 66, a judge of Arlington County's General District Court, died Dec. 29 at Arlington Hospital after a heart attack.
Judge Thomas had served on the Arlington court since the early 1980s and before that had been a part-time judge in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.
As a judge, he had performed several marriages, including weddings for actors Richard Burton and Peter Lawford , actress Lana Turner and then-Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.
A resident of Arlington, he was born in Washington. He graduated from St. Paul's High School in Washington and from American University and its law school. He also studied accounting at Benjamin Franklin University.
During the 1950s, he served in the Army, then practiced law in Arlington for 23 years before he became a judge.
He was a member of the Washington Golf and Country Club and the Knights of Columbus.
His wife of 27 years, Frances Trimm Thomas, died in 1987. Survivors include a daughter, Dana M. Thomas Berbert of Sandy Spring, four stepdaughters, Sherry Holdbrooks of Chesapeake, Va., Beverly Wilkins and Lori Hudson, both of Dale City, and Christie Hudson of Minnesota; and three step-grandchildren.
(The Washington Post - Saturday, December 31, 1994)
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Nobody Paid The Judge
Judge Francis E. Thomas of Arlington, Va. didn't know for sure until an hour before the ceremony that he was going to tie the nuptial knot for Henry Kissinger and Nancy Maginnes. But he'd certainly had hints. Starting at Christmastime, a Washington lawyer put him on call to marry "a high government official" at a moment's notice. "I guessed right from the beginning that it was Kissinger," avers Thomas, 45, who is a juvenile and domestic court judge. "But I didn't think he would make it this week. I'd read in the papers he was in Moscow."
Kissinger wore a blue business suit, white shirt and a bright blue necktie; his bride-to-be was dressed in a gold-flecked beige suit with a matching furtrimmed coat. "They promised to love and to cherish," Thomas recalls. "But there was no mention of God. And there were no rings. I don't think they had time to get them."
It was a relaxed ceremony. "There were no tears," Judge Thomas says. "His children were quiet. I congratulated him and called her Mrs. Kissinger. She looked a little startled and stepped back. They all do. He kissed her and they held hands. Then there was embracing and handshaking all around."
In the excitement, neither Kissinger nor his aides remembered to pay Judge Thomas for his services. "I usually get $25 for a wedding," says Thomas, who once collected $100 when he married off Lana Turner. Whether or not Henry comes through with the cash, the wedding has been a bonanza for Thomas's marrying business. The judge usually gets two or three calls a day from couples. The Monday after marrying the Kissingers, he had 25.
(From "Just Henry and Nancy and the Diplomatic Pouch" - People Magazine - April 15, 1974 - Vol. 1 No. 7)
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Francis "Bud" Thomas Jr.
Arlington Judge
Francis Everett "Bud" Thomas Jr., 66, a judge of Arlington County's General District Court, died Dec. 29 at Arlington Hospital after a heart attack.
Judge Thomas had served on the Arlington court since the early 1980s and before that had been a part-time judge in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.
As a judge, he had performed several marriages, including weddings for actors Richard Burton and Peter Lawford , actress Lana Turner and then-Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.
A resident of Arlington, he was born in Washington. He graduated from St. Paul's High School in Washington and from American University and its law school. He also studied accounting at Benjamin Franklin University.
During the 1950s, he served in the Army, then practiced law in Arlington for 23 years before he became a judge.
He was a member of the Washington Golf and Country Club and the Knights of Columbus.
His wife of 27 years, Frances Trimm Thomas, died in 1987. Survivors include a daughter, Dana M. Thomas Berbert of Sandy Spring, four stepdaughters, Sherry Holdbrooks of Chesapeake, Va., Beverly Wilkins and Lori Hudson, both of Dale City, and Christie Hudson of Minnesota; and three step-grandchildren.
(The Washington Post - Saturday, December 31, 1994)
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Nobody Paid The Judge
Judge Francis E. Thomas of Arlington, Va. didn't know for sure until an hour before the ceremony that he was going to tie the nuptial knot for Henry Kissinger and Nancy Maginnes. But he'd certainly had hints. Starting at Christmastime, a Washington lawyer put him on call to marry "a high government official" at a moment's notice. "I guessed right from the beginning that it was Kissinger," avers Thomas, 45, who is a juvenile and domestic court judge. "But I didn't think he would make it this week. I'd read in the papers he was in Moscow."
Kissinger wore a blue business suit, white shirt and a bright blue necktie; his bride-to-be was dressed in a gold-flecked beige suit with a matching furtrimmed coat. "They promised to love and to cherish," Thomas recalls. "But there was no mention of God. And there were no rings. I don't think they had time to get them."
It was a relaxed ceremony. "There were no tears," Judge Thomas says. "His children were quiet. I congratulated him and called her Mrs. Kissinger. She looked a little startled and stepped back. They all do. He kissed her and they held hands. Then there was embracing and handshaking all around."
In the excitement, neither Kissinger nor his aides remembered to pay Judge Thomas for his services. "I usually get $25 for a wedding," says Thomas, who once collected $100 when he married off Lana Turner. Whether or not Henry comes through with the cash, the wedding has been a bonanza for Thomas's marrying business. The judge usually gets two or three calls a day from couples. The Monday after marrying the Kissingers, he had 25.
(From "Just Henry and Nancy and the Diplomatic Pouch" - People Magazine - April 15, 1974 - Vol. 1 No. 7)
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Francis "Bud" Thomas Jr.
Arlington Judge
Francis Everett "Bud" Thomas Jr., 66, a judge of Arlington County's General District Court, died Dec. 29 at Arlington Hospital after a heart attack.
Judge Thomas had served on the Arlington court since the early 1980s and before that had been a part-time judge in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.
As a judge, he had performed several marriages, including weddings for actors Richard Burton and Peter Lawford , actress Lana Turner and then-Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.
A resident of Arlington, he was born in Washington. He graduated from St. Paul's High School in Washington and from American University and its law school. He also studied accounting at Benjamin Franklin University.
During the 1950s, he served in the Army, then practiced law in Arlington for 23 years before he became a judge.
He was a member of the Washington Golf and Country Club and the Knights of Columbus.
His wife of 27 years, Frances Trimm Thomas, died in 1987. Survivors include a daughter, Dana M. Thomas Berbert of Sandy Spring, four stepdaughters, Sherry Holdbrooks of Chesapeake, Va., Beverly Wilkins and Lori Hudson, both of Dale City, and Christie Hudson of Minnesota; and three step-grandchildren.
(The Washington Post - Saturday, December 31, 1994)
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Nobody Paid The Judge
Judge Francis E. Thomas of Arlington, Va. didn't know for sure until an hour before the ceremony that he was going to tie the nuptial knot for Henry Kissinger and Nancy Maginnes. But he'd certainly had hints. Starting at Christmastime, a Washington lawyer put him on call to marry "a high government official" at a moment's notice. "I guessed right from the beginning that it was Kissinger," avers Thomas, 45, who is a juvenile and domestic court judge. "But I didn't think he would make it this week. I'd read in the papers he was in Moscow."
Kissinger wore a blue business suit, white shirt and a bright blue necktie; his bride-to-be was dressed in a gold-flecked beige suit with a matching furtrimmed coat. "They promised to love and to cherish," Thomas recalls. "But there was no mention of God. And there were no rings. I don't think they had time to get them."
It was a relaxed ceremony. "There were no tears," Judge Thomas says. "His children were quiet. I congratulated him and called her Mrs. Kissinger. She looked a little startled and stepped back. They all do. He kissed her and they held hands. Then there was embracing and handshaking all around."
In the excitement, neither Kissinger nor his aides remembered to pay Judge Thomas for his services. "I usually get $25 for a wedding," says Thomas, who once collected $100 when he married off Lana Turner. Whether or not Henry comes through with the cash, the wedding has been a bonanza for Thomas's marrying business. The judge usually gets two or three calls a day from couples. The Monday after marrying the Kissingers, he had 25.
(From "Just Henry and Nancy and the Diplomatic Pouch" - People Magazine - April 15, 1974 - Vol. 1 No. 7)
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