Thomas William Nine

Thomas William Nine, 23Thomas William Nine, 23, of Mesa, passed away recently. Mr. Nine, a native Arizonan, was a 2002 graduate of Red Mountain High School. He served as a crypto-linguist analyst in the U.S. Army in Germany and Uzbekistan. Being fluent in three languages, he then chose to live in Hungary and tutor students in English while also being a blacksmith's apprentice.He returned to Mesa to continue his educational goals of becoming an English teacher and then pursuing that career in Hungary or Japan.He is survived by his mother and her husband, Jo Ellen and Butch Schubert of Dreamland Villa; his father, David L. Nine; a brother, Sam (Jasmine) Nine; grandparents, Carolyn Champagne, Daniel Thomas Nine and Bob Lewis.