Thomas S. Mallonee Jr., a retired advertising copywriter and restaurant reviewer who had also taught wine appreciation classes, died July 20 of cancer at Tate Chesapeake Hospice House in Linthicum. He was 82.
Mr. Mallonee was born in Baltimore and raised in Pikesville. He was a graduate of Pikesville High School and earned a bachelor's degree in advertising in 1949 from the University of Maryland, College Park.
In the 1950s, he served in the Coast Guard and the merchant marine.
He went to work in the early 1960s as a copywriter at Emory Advertising in Baltimore before joining VanSant Dugdale, where he worked from the 1960s until the 1990s.
The Severna Park resident later worked in Washington and had his own freelance agency until 2008.
He and his wife, the former Julia Daugherty whom he married in 1956, also wrote restaurant reviews for The Capital newspaper in Annapolis and Baltimore Magazine.
Mr. Mallonee was a founder during the 1970s of Les Amis Du Vin, an Anne Arundel County wine tasting group that combined wine sampling with lectures by growers and expert oenophiles.
"He was an erstwhile jokester, magician, musician, sailor and gourmand," said a daughter, Debi Mallonee of Severna Park. "He also liked cooking and sailing."
At Mr. Mallonee's request, no services were held.
In addition to his wife and daughter, Mr. Mallonee is survived by a son, John Mallonee of Fountain, Colo.; another daughter, Terry Gallegos of Monrovia, Frederick County; and six grandchildren.