Dr. Thomas F. Clement, a retired Carroll County dentist, died Friday of colon cancer at the Charlestown retirement community. He was 82.
The son of a dentist and a homemaker, Dr. Clement was born in Baltimore and raised on Edmondson Avenue in West Baltimore.
After graduating in 1945 from City College, he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. He was a 1951 graduate of the University of Maryland School of Dentistry.
He met his future wife, the former Esther R. Moore, who was a nursing student at the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing. They wed in 1951.
After graduation from dental school, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Navy Dental Corps and served for three years until being discharged in 1954 at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in North Chicago, Ill.
He returned to Baltimore and began practicing dentistry in West Baltimore. In 1974, he established a home and office in Woodbine. He retired in 2000.
Dr. Clement had also taught oral medicine at the University of Maryland.
"He loved dentistry and his patients, and it was very painful for him to give it up," said a daughter, Patricia A.C. Marshall of Lutherville.
He was a member of the Maryland State Dental Association and the Baltimore City Dental Society.
Dr. Clement was a lifelong rail fan and enjoyed riding on steam trains and visiting railroad museums. He was also an HO-gauge model railroader and liked working on his layout.
He was also a camper, rock collector and an accomplished woodworker.
Services for Dr. Clement will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in the chapel at the Charlestown retirement community, 711 Maiden Choice Lane, Catonsville.
In addition to his wife and daughter, Dr. Clement is survived by a son, David F. Clement of Colorado Springs, Colo.; another daughter, Sheree J. Clement of Jackson Heights, N.Y.; two sisters, Anne Gehring of Baltimore and Mary Noble of Hillsdale, Mich.; and five grandchildren.