Tom was the son of Samuel Washburn and Elizabeth Kilbank. Born in Echo Twp. Michigan. Married Bertha Angelina Clark April 17, 1904 in Central Lake, Antrim, Michigan. Tom & Bertha Washburn went to Florida each winter from about 1945 to the early 1960s. They lived at "the cottage" 0n Torth Lake, Antim County, Michigan, during the summers. This was there retirement lifestyle. Tom had been a carpenter by trade like his father before him. He had logged and built homes around Munising, Michigan, which is in the Upper Peninsula on Lake Superior, at the turn of the twentieth century, before settling down and marrying. Tom & Bertha were married in 1904 in Antrim County and moved to Detroit shortly after the birth of their first child, Victor. Vera, Versal, Mildred, Dorothy, Ruth, & Beatrice and his 5 sisters were all born while they lived at 9150 Armour Street somewhere near Gratiot and Van Dyke. They were very active at Bethany Methodist Church for many years which closed in 1953. During the 1930's, known as "The Depression Years," they moved to a home on Chalmers were they resided until Grandpa's retirement. It was an income home with an apartment upstairs where their youngest daughter, Beatrice (Betty) and her husband Harold Anderson lived after their marriage in 1943 for a few years. A fall from a ladder while carpentering during "the depression," left Tom Washburn's right leg shorter than the left one by a couple of inches. He walked with a cane the rest of his life. When he was not actively carpentering, Tom Washburn worked at Packer Motor Car Company for several years. He planted a "garden" in Central Lake Township, Antrim County, Michigan & all of his grandchildren remember helping in the garden, shooting crows, go fishing with him on Torch Lake in a row boat.