Thomas Arthur Ranney

Mr. Thomas Arthur Ranney, 83, of Warner Robins, passed peacefully in the company of family Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022.

He was born in Montpelier, Vt., and later moved with his family to Rutland, Vt., where he graduated from Rutland High School in 1957. He attended Castleton State College where he earned a B.S. degree in 1962 and went on to earn his M.S. in soil sciences from the University of Vermont in 1971. He served the townships of Arlington, and Windsor, Vt., as a high school physics and chemistry teacher for over 20 years and was honored as Teacher of the Year on numerous occasions. He later moved on to pursue research for the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers at CRREL in Hanover, N.H., where he coauthored and published several scholarly articles based on his research findings and reports.

In his younger years, he enjoyed hunting, flying as an amateur pilot, volunteering as an EMT for the Windsor Fire Department and ski patrol at Mt. Ascutney in Vermont. After retiring, he enjoyed woodworking, restoring classical cars and working on model train sets. He moved to the Georgia mountains in 2008, remarried in 2009, and enjoyed traveling the United States and several other countries around the world for 13 years with his wife, Nancy.

He is survived by wife Nancy; daughter, Nicole A. Connolly, of Weathersfield, Vt.; son, Jason T. Ranney, of Sarasota, Fla.; grandchildren, Drew and Sierra Connolly and Jake and Maxwell Ranney; great-grandson, Kane Kelley; stepsons, Bruce Romsey, of Dublin and Robert Romsey, of Orange City, Fla.; and stepdaughter, Barbara Romsey, of Dunlap, Tenn.

A celebration of his life will be held for immediate family at a future time.