THOMAS W. WEIL, 59 years of age died on Wednesday, the 19th of February, 2005 in Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas. He died as a result of a heart attack while jogging in Memorial Park near his home. He was formerly of Orchard Park and Elma, NY. He graduated from Iroquois Central High School in 1963 and from The University of Miami in Ohio in 1968 with a degree in Business and he served in an Army Artillery unit in Vietnam for two years.

After military service he joined the family lumber firm of J.C. Weil, Lancaster, NY. He changed the focus of the business as the times changed and became involved in the Oil and Gas business in Western New York and Pennsylvania. He drilled many gas wells locally and as his business expanded, he moved his base of operations to Houston, Texas in the late 1990's. He was President of Mississippi River Gas, LLC, a utility in Jackson, Mississippi. President of Weil Resources, and President of J.C. Weil Company. He had many other interests in exploration and production of gas wells.