Thomas Ernst Springer, 75, of Tampa, Fla., and formerly of Bluffton, died Tuesday Oct. 17, 2023, at 12:15 p.m. in Tampa. He was born April 28, 1948, to Ernst Springer and Bertha “Betty” Mae Lehman Springer in the Lutheran Hospital of Fort Wayne. He married Suellen Little Oct. 11, 1982. He is surived by daughter,…