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UT music professor dies after wasp sting

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Living near family was a top priority for Kelly Thomas and his wife, Jana.

They and their four young children moved cross country so Thomas could teach at the University of Tennessee, and they could live on Jana’s family farm near Athens, Tenn.

“He was trying to get her back home,” said Jody Dake of Mr. Thomas and her sister.

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