THOMPSON, Ada Kaye

THOMPSON, PALMETER, CHOATE, BURK, WATKINS

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/24/2013 at 00:02:25

Ada Kaye Thompson, 90, 3714 North Shore Dr., Clear Lake, Iowa, died Saturday,
Dec. 28, 2002, at the North Iowa Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City, Iowa. A
Celebration of Life will be held at 11 a.m. on July 3, 2003, at the First
Congregational Church, Clear Lake, with the Rev. Thomas Healey officiating.
Inurnment will be held at the Clear Lake Cemetery. Memorials may be given to the
First Congregational Church in her name. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N.
4th St., Clear Lake, Iowa is in charge of arrangements.

Ada Kaye was born April 18, 1912, in Clear Lake, the daughter of Walter and
Maude (Palmeter) Choate. She graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1929 and
attended Mason City Jr. College for two years. Ada Kaye married James Harold
Thompson Oct. 5, 1935. She was a lifelong member of the First Congregational
Church where she served in many capacities such as Sunday School teacher,
pianist, and originator of the Angel workshop. Ada Kaye was also a Charter
member of the Congregational Church of the Valley in Chandler, Az. She was a
member of Chapter EA, P.E.O., Today's Club, Crescent Club, and along with her
family, was active in the Yacht Club. Special interests were genealogy and Clear
Lake history, about which she was particularly knowledgeable.

Ada Kaye is survived by her daughter, Sally Burk and husband, Gale, Gilbert,
Az.; her son, Doug Thompson and wife, Mary, Clearbrook, Minn.; four
grandchildren, Stephanie Davis and husband, Brian, Kristin Brown and husband,
Todd, Anna Thompson and Emily Thompson; great-grandchildren Ashlyn Davis,
Chandler, Az., and Madison Kay Brown, Denver, Colo.; nieces Joanne Watkins,
Clear Lake, Margaret Ann Carter, Letts, Iowa, Mary Lou Thompson, Marshalltown,
Iowa; nephews Dr. Peter Watkins, Elkader, Iowa, Dr. Tom Choate, Madison, Wis.,
and James Thompson, Letts, Iowa; cousins Dr. Harold Vedeler, Alexandria, Va. and
Betty Dean, White Fish Bay, Wis.

Ada Kaye was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Harold on Oct. 4,
1999; one sister, Virginia Choate Watkins; and one brother, Roger Choate.