Thomas A. Ennis

OBITUARY

Thomas A. Ennis, age 96 passed away peacefully on January 18, 2025 in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire after a brief illness. Tom was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on September 25, 1928, son of the late Thomas F. Ennis and Dorothy Estes Ennis. Tom graduated from Lowell High School in June of 1945. He enlisted in the United States Navy on December 31, 1945. He served on the U.S.S. Springfield based in San Pedro, California until being honorably discharged in October of 1947. Upon returning to Lowell, he followed his father into the printing industry as a plate maker for Shaw Brothers Printing in Lowell. On May 30, 1949 Tom married Mary E. Cusick at St. Margaret’s Church in Lowell. In 1951, Tom and Mary purchased a new home at 37 Main Street in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts where they raised their two children, Robert and Barry. In 1973 they sold this home and moved to 15 Circlefield Drive in Nashua, New Hampshire until they retired. Tom’s career in printing took him from Shaw Brothers printing to Northeast Offset located in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. During his time at Northeast Offset he worked to further his education by attending Fitchburg State University. He obtained his degree and left the printing industry to become a teacher of graphic arts at Nashoba Valley Technical High School in Westford, Massachusetts in September of 1969, and remained there until his retirement in December of 1989. During this time he was also a member of the Town of Chelmsford’s Planning Board as well as a member of the Chelmsford Junior Chamber of Commerce. Tom and Mary started vacationing in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region in 1962, starting in Guilford’s Lake Shore Park, then moving to the Wanderlust R.V. Park on Tuftonboro Neck from 1964 to it’s closing in1972. They then moved to Whitten’s Shore Acres Campground on Chase Point Road, also in Tuftonboro. In August of 1973, Tom and Mary purchased their home at 2 Pineneedle Cove Road on Sawyer’s Point in Tuftonboro. It was in this house that Mary passed away peacefully in her sleep on July 23, 2011, and where Tom lived out his life! It was their favorite place to be! They loved it! After Tom’s retirement they became full time residents of Tuftonboro and enjoyed life on the “Lake”, spending summers cruising around the lake in their appropriately named boat, the MENNIS, and Tom also enjoyed riding on his jet ski. During their early years of retirement they enjoyed snowmobiling during the winter months, exploring the many miles of trails in the area. After growing tired of all the snow and cold temperatures they began to spend 3 months a year in Florida. Tom continued to drive to Florida every year until he was stranded there by the covid outbreak in the spring of 2020 and decided he would spend his remaining years in Tuftonboro, his favorite place to be! Tom could be seen driving around town in his 2015 Chevy Camaro and 1964 Ford Thunderbird until shortly before his passing! He was a member of the Greatest Generation and they loved to drive everywhere! Tom loved watching football and golf on television and enjoyed the daily happy hour cocktail at 4 o’clock with his friends at his house! Tom was predeceased by his sister Carole Kelly of Long Island, New York in 1991 as well as his wife Mary in 2011. He is survived by his two sons, Robert of Tuftonboro and Barry of Tuftonboro, N.H. and Locke’s Mills, Maine,as well as by his two grandchildren, Sean Ennis and his wife Cassie of Tamworth, N.H. and Meg Ennis of Chandler, Arizona, as well as by 3 great grandchildren Beau Ennis, Rylee Ennis and Lydia Ennis from Tamworth as well.

Tom will be buried next to Mary in the Tuftonboro Town House Cemetery this spring and there will be a Celebration of his Life at the Inn on Main in Wolfeboro, N.H. on June 21, 2025. Details will be forthcoming!