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Artist, musician 'Tom' Malone dead at 45
by Melissa Gagliardi
Of The Leaf-Chronicle staff
Local artist and musician Thomas Kervis "Tom" Malone died at his 430 S. First St., home Friday of a brain aneurysm. He was 45. Friends and relatives are left with fond memories of a gentle, talented, giving man who took pleasure in the simple things of life.
"You'd never meet a nicer person," Charlsie Halliburton said of her younger brother. "He will be missed by many."
Halliburton said she will always remember him for his kindness toward others, as well as for his artwork. Mr. Malone was a sculptor and painter, made guitars, wrote music and made stone and wood carvings.
Olen Bryant, who taught Mr. Malone sculpting at Austin Peay State University in the 1960's, was flattered that his former student stayed in contact with him long after their classroom days together. 
[Picture of Malone with Malone as a description next to the text.] Bryant said Mr. Malone kept in touch with him writing "the most charming letters."
"He was a very gifted man in all directions." he said. "He had an artistic tough with everything he came in contact with."
Mr. Malone, he said, had a "helpful, gentle presence" and an almost childlike personality.
"It was a very pleasant experience to be around him," Bryant said.
Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Sango Cemetery with Dr. John David Laida officiating. Burial will be in Sango Cemetery.
Visitation is today from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Monday from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. at McReynolds Nave & Larson Funeral Home.
He was born Sept., 26, 1952, in Nashville, son of Charles E. Malone and Dolores Ann Dodson Malone.
Mr. Malone was an an Austin Peay physical plant employee, a member of the APSU Support Council and a member of the First Baptist Church.
In addition to his parents, of Clarksville, survivors include his companion, Diane Snyder Dinsmore, Clarksville; grandmother, Sammie Dodson, Gallatin, and a sister, Charlsie Halliburton, Clarksville.
Pallbearers will be Mike Taylor, Tom Rice, Scott Wise, Gary Hamm, Mark McLean, Jason Winkler, Bob Frost, Nathan Snyder, Olen Bryan and Chuck Emery.
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This death has sobered a lot of people at assorted levels of the community. He was one of the 'great' hippies but did not have the mean streaks in his personality that some of them did...no children but he had a string of devoted girl friends...3 or 4 of them were at the grave...really like something out of a film....one of the unfrotunate things that I've done was not saving letters that he wrote while he was living and working in Houston and in Denver. Lots of people tell me that not saving things is 'not' a problem with me..I seem to have produced an awful lot of things over the years and I do wonder what it all means and what disposition can or will be made at some point....actually a lot of my most successful things actually...I think you may know about this pattern.....

Recently a former student went into a nursing home and all of her treasures were put in an estate sale. Yesterday on the way back from New Deal I stopped at an antique store and when I entered I noticed a sort of interesting carving....just something that I might like to have around...after looking around I decided to buy it since it was very inexpensive...when checking out the dealer told me that it hd [a is under the d] come from my former student's estate...it sort of came back to me then that she had done this in one of my classes a long long time ago....I'm trying to decide whether this is interesting or some kind of weird.....?