John & Fereshteh Kinney
To Family, Friends and Loved Ones of Thomas A. Pluta, we share your tears and sadness in losing our beloved Tom. Very few who encountered Tom could ever forget him. The world will not be the same without this warm, loquacious, intelligent, humorous and jovial man, who even managed to charm and make us smile when at his most ornery. Tom invariably left people in laughter from his highly resourceful wit and humor, or in awe from his keen intelligence, insight, and well informed - if not highly controversial - opinions. Tom was a true natural – blessed with the gift of the written and spoken word, and an ear for fine music, whether of the classic variety or Puttin’ on the Ritz, and played piano himself, including an infamously tortured version of As Time Goes By on his untuned Steinway. A highly gifted lawyer, he wowed the bar for over 25 years as a Veterans’ Law Judge. To his friends, family and colleagues, Tom was incredibly loyal, and not once did he ever hesitate to lend support and comfort to his friends and loved ones in need. Most of all, Tom was a dedicated, loving, and loyal mate, companion, confidant and husband to the love of his life, his beloved Marianne – his Cat - without whom his rich and varied life would have been incomplete. In his last days and hours, she was always by his side, he surely feeling he was the luckiest of them all.
We will miss you Tom.
Affectionately, John, Fereshteh and the entire Kinney family.
Friday January 26, 2018 at 9:19 pm