Tommy Schalk

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January 11, 1943 - December 2, 2022
Thomas Edward (Tom) Schalk, 79, of Gainesville, passed away December 2, 2022. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on January 11, 1943 to parents Leroy and Ann Schalk. He grew up in Eldorado, Arkansas where he attended school and graduated in 1961. He selected Louisiana Tech for college where he majored in business and pledged with the Kappa Sigma fraternity. During this time, his parents relocated to Gainesville where his father accepted the position of manager of the 77 Bowl bowling alley. Tom opted to transfer to the University of North Texas to pursue his degree while helping his family. He worked at the bowling alley and met Ray and Joy Die, avid bowlers at the time. Joy immediately saw potential in him and insisted her daughter, Joybell, come meet him. He asked her on a date, and fate led them to marry on August, 19, 1967. 
After graduating from University of North Texas, Tom entered the United States Navy as a commissioned officer and worked as a navigator flying many combat missions during the Vietnam War. He exited active duty in 1972 but remained in the naval reserves earning the rank of Captain before being honorably discharged in 1992. 
After his Naval tour ended in 1972, Mr. Schalk began working with Michael Rigler as a staff accountant while pursuing his Certified Public Accountant accreditation. He received his MBA from the University of North Texas in 1974. He was promoted to partner at his office of Rigler and Schalk, CPA and proudly worked providing accounting services to the Gainesville community. In 1984, Tom joined with fellow CPA Judy Smith to open the new accounting firm of Schalk & Smith, PC (which is still in operation today). 
For over fifty years, Tom Schalk has been a contributing member of Gainesville through his participation in clubs such as the Optimist Club, Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce as well as donating his time and financial support to many not-for-profit organizations around the community. 
He is preceded in death by his parents, Leroy and Ann Schalk, and his beloved wife Joybell Die Schalk. He is survived by son Trey Schalk of Gainesville with wife Amy, daughter Joyann Cooke of Highland Village with husband Brad and children Addelyn Joy Cooke and Mackson Thomas Cooke, and many friends. 
 Memorial services will be held Wednesday, December 7 at 2:00pm in the chapel of Geo J. Carroll Funeral Home, 602 Lindsay Street, Gainesville, TX. There will be no visitation held. 
In lieu of gifts, the family respectfully suggests donating to the GISD Foundation in support of education for GISD or Noah's Ark because he loved animals.

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After graduation from EHS, I attended Louisiana Tech for two years and then transferred to the University of North Texas located in Denton, Texas.  I graduated in May, 1967 with a BBA and MBA in Finance and married Joybell Die in August, 1967, in Gainesville, Texas.

I had accepted a job offer from Conoco Oil Inc. in their executive training program at the field office in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and worked there until I received my acceptance to the Navy’s Officer Candidate School (OCS) located in Newport, R.I.  Eighteen weeks later I was commissioned as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy.  During the OCS training, I had made application to the Naval Flight Officer program and was assigned to basic air training in Pensacola, Florida.  After Pensacola I went to NAS Corpus Christi for navigator training.  Upon completion of the navigation program I was awarded my flight wings and was selected for training as a Tactical Coordinator flying in the P-3 Orion aircraft.  I attended various training at NAS North Island in Coronado, Californian and NAS Moffett Field in Mountain View, California.  After completion of all the training I was designated as a Naval Flight Officer and joined my squadron, VP-17, on deployment flying out of MCAS Iwakuni, Japan.  We flew missions in the Sea of Japan in support of the 7th Fleet and also detached to the war zone flying out of NAS Sangley Point, P.I.  My squadron returned to homeport in NAS Barbers Point, Hawaii, for about nine months of training and flying support missions for the local fleet air wing.  The next deployment was for eight months, flying out of NAS Sangley Point and Utapao, Thailand AFB in support of Operation Market Time trying to catch the Viet Cong who were smuggling arms and munitions to the VC in the South from North Vietnam.  I was released from active duty in May, 1971 and I immediately affiliated with the transport Naval Reserve Squadron VR-59, flying as a navigator in the C-118B aircraft (military version of the DC-6).  I remained on a flight status until 1981 when the Navy replaced the C-118B with the C-9 aircraft that had an inertial navigation system that did not require a navigator.  I continued to serve in the Naval Reserves in various management capacities in several units.  In 1995, I retired with twenty-seven years of service as a Captain (O-6).

Upon release from active duty, I joined a local CPA firm in 1971 located in Gainesville, Texas, and received my designation as a CPA from the Texas Society of CPA’s in 1974.  I was made a name partner in the firm of Rigler and Schalk, CPA’s, and worked in that firm until I decided to form my own firm, Schalk and Smith PC, CPA’s in 1981.  The firm currently has three CPA’s and five support employees.

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