LINCOLNTON, Ga. - Mr. Thomas Louis Tom Guillebeau, Jr., 48, of Lincolnton, died Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011, at his residence. Funeral services were held Sunday, August 28, 2011 at 4 p.m. at New Hope Baptist Church with Revs. Tom Kalliokoski and Ficklen Guin officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery with military honors. Wendell Gresham, Roy H. Guillebeau, Jr., William R. Guillebeau, Manuel Manrique, Dwayne Evans, Doug Gresham, Sam Smith and Michael Turner served as pallbearers. Legionaries, Sons of the American Legion and the Auxiliary of American Legion #194 will serve as honorary pallbearers. Tom was born in Portsmouth, Va. on September 4th, 1962. In recent years, he had lived in Clayton, Ga. where he had owned a construction and carpentry business. Earlier this year, he moved to the old Guillebeau home in the Maxim community in Lincoln County to be with his mother during his illness. He was preceded in death by his father, Thomas L. Guillebeau, Sr., brother, Roy H. Guillebeau, III; and his grandparents, Claude Gresham and Valerie Gresham Fortson, and Peyton and Sara Guillebeau Banks. Also, he was a member of American Legion # 194. Survivors include his wife: Maria Guillebeau, and her son, Jose' of Clayton; mother:, Jane G Guillebeau, Lincolnton; sisters: Lisa G. Smith, and husband, Sam, Thomson, Katherine G. Hyatt, Batesburg, S.C.; nieces and nephews.