BATH — Thatcher B. Pinkham, 89 and 3/4, of Bridge Street died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, at his residence.

He was born in Bath on May 20, 1923, a son of Thatcher B. and Ethel (Williams) Pinkham.

He attended Bath schools and graduated from Morse High School in the class of 1941. He was employed at Bath Iron Works in the Electrical Drawing Room. He entered the U.S. Army in 1948, completing basic training at Fort Bragg, N.C. He served during the Korean Conflict, including being stationed on Okinawa in Japan, and was honorably discharged in 1951. He continued his employment at Bath Iron Works in the Fleet Service Engineering Department, retiring on March 31, 1989.

He was a member of the Central Congregational Church (now the Chocolate Church) and the United Church of Christ, UCC, on Congress Avenue in Bath, where he was a member of the choir, a deacon and chairman of the Music Committee. Subsequently, he became a member of the Phippsburg Congregational Church, UCC, in Phippsburg, where he was on the Board of Deacons. He was a board member and past president of The Plant Home, chairing the Maintenance Committee, which kept the Plant Home in tip-top shape. He was a former trustee and corporator of the Patten Free Library. Thatcher volunteered every week in the Curatorial Department at the Maine Maritime Museum for more than 20 years and as a docent on its Sherman Zwicker, winning the Miles Merry Master Builder Distinguished Volunteer Award.

He is survived by his cousins, Valerie Latsey and her sons, Peter and Andy; Michael, Jeff, Chris and Scot Williams, Lori Klenke, Gaye Wormington and Holly Nielsen; Paula Adam, Marie Peaslee, Jean Markwood and Jackie Sylvester; Don Williams and Toby Kay; Carroll, Kerry and Kevin Leeman; and Danny Dean, Frances Potter and Jane Coogan. He is also survived by a close family friend, Ann Schroeder, and too many other friends to individually list. He now joins his cohortin crime and cousin, Clem Barter.

Thatcher lived by the following creed from Etienne De Grellet: “I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creatures, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, at Phippsburg Congregational Church, UCC, 10 Church Lane, Phippsburg.

Burial will be at Oak Grove Cemetery in Bath in the spring. Memorial contributions may be made to Phippsburg Congregational UCC Church, P.O. Box 301, Phippsburg, ME 04562.

Arrangements are by Daigle Funeral Home, 819 High St., Bath. Condolences may be made online at www.Daiglefuneralhome.com.