Please send out your thoughts and prayers to Portsmouth.

[The Instructor]

Tom Grashel passed away this morning.

He was a teacher and the athletic director for the Portsmouth City Schools.

He leaves behind a wife and three children.

The Portsmouth community has lost a true Trojan today.

Rest In Peace, Tom

[The Instructor]

Tom was at Hospice in Portsmouth when he passed.

He was surrounded by his family and friends.

[Philly]

Instructor, Thanks for your message. God bless this family. This will be such a sad time for them.

[Focused]

Prayers go up for family and friends at this difficult time......
from the Focused household.

[biggdowgg]

prayers for the family.

we lost a true Trojan today this man was as loyal to the kids and school as they came.


rest in peace, Tom.

ONCE A TROJAN..ALWAYS A TROJAN

[ManitouDan]

prayers will go up from MD. Tough tough loss for the trojan family.

[The Instructor]

Our school family is devastated.

Tom ran 7 miles on a treadmill the day before he found out he was ill which was right before Christmas.

He will be dearly missed.

[LICKING COUNTY FAN]

Prayers go up for the family from Buckeye Lake.

[orange-n-brown 365]

again thoughts and prayers from our family

[ballparent]

Thoughts and prayers from this house to his family and to you Instructor and all his other co-workers and friends.

[IHSTiger81]

Prayers to the family, friends and co-workers as they struggle through this difficult time. God Bless.

[ItownHosscat]

My condolences

[OZZIEOHIO]

Condolences From here. Very sad day in TROJAN LAND!!!

[RiverRatRay]

Thoughts and prayers from everyone here for the Grashel Family as well as the entire Trojan Nation.

[The Instructor]

Here are the funeral arrangements for Tom.

Visitation will be Friday, February 29, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Ralph F. Scott Funeral Home (corner of Grant & Lincoln Streets). The funeral will be Saturday morning at 11 a.m. at Cornerstone United Methodist Church, 808 Offnere Street.

[yabbadabbadoo]

Our school family is devastated.

Tom ran 7 miles on a treadmill the day before he found out he was ill which was right before Christmas.

He will be dearly missed.

It is amazing how fast this evil disease can overtake you. I had a friend of mine who also died of cancer. He was diagnosed in August and died the following January. I think about him all the time and miss playing cards with him.


If you have any kinds of symptoms or aches and pains at all, please get them checked. I know sometimes it might be to late, but sometimes it isn't. My father found out he had colon cancer in a peculiar way. He went in to have his knees checked and somehow they detected something that wasn't right, checked him for the colon cancer and found that he hadt it. They went in and removed 18 inches of his colon and that was 13 years ago. He is still with us.

RIP Tom Grashel. If there ever was a true Trojan, it was Tom.

[IronTigerMum]

May God, who is infinitely good, grant comfort to his family and friends. Prayers from here.

[The Instructor]

Our school family is devastated.

Tom ran 7 miles on a treadmill the day before he found out he was ill which was right before Christmas.

He will be dearly missed.

It is amazing how fast this evil disease can overtake you. I had a friend of mine who also died of cancer. He was diagnosed in August and died the following January. I think about him all the time and miss playing cards with him.


If you have any kinds of symptoms or aches and pains at all, please get them checked. I know sometimes it might be to late, but sometimes it isn't. My father found out he had colon cancer in a peculiar way. He went in to have his knees checked and somehow they detected something that wasn't right, checked him for the colon cancer and found that he hadt it. They went in and removed 18 inches of his colon and that was 13 years ago. He is still with us.

RIP Tom Grashel. If there ever was a true Trojan, it was Tom.

Tom had some testing done over the summer and nothing came up .

They went back and checked those tests to see if something had been missed.

There wasn't anything missed on them.

[The Instructor]

If anyone is interested, Tom's family requests memorial contributions can be made to the PHS Athletic Department or the Scioto County MRDD Special Olympics.

Portsmouth High School
Athletic Department
1225 Gallia Street
Portsmouth, Ohio 45662

Scioto County MRDD
Special Olympics
2619 Gallia Street
Portsmouth, Ohio 45662

[YOU'RE TIGER BAIT]

TO THE FAMILY, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THE NEXT TIME YOU GET TOGETHER IT WILL BE FOREVER. DEATH'S ARE NEVER EASY. BUT B.D. TOLD ME THE WHOLE TOWN WAS THERE. HE EARNED THAT. YTB. WILL MISS YOU BUD.