THOMPSON, Hawley A., 1905-1985

THOMPSON, TOFTE, BARNESS, LATHAM, REINERTSON, OSMUNDSON, KLEPPE, HAUSER, VETTRUS

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The Union
West Union, Fayette co., Iowa
28 March 1985
Page 11, column four

THOMPSON SERVICES HELD AT BETHANY LUTHERAN

Final services were said for Hawley A. Thompson, 79, West Union, on Monday, March 25 in Bethany Lutheran Church, rural West Union. Rev Richard Vettrus officiated at the 2 o'clock services, with Burnham and Wood Funeral Home handling the arrangements. Mr. Thompson died March 21, at Good Samaritan Home in West Union where he had resided for the past year.

Burial was in Bethany Lutheran church cemetery. Pallbearers were Kenneth Reinertson, Dennis Osmundson, Richard Kleppe, Leslie Hauser, Lloyd Barness and Wayne Barness.

Hawley A. Thompson, son of Thomas and Kathryn Tofte Thompson, was born Oct. 14, 1905, in rural Eldorado. He was Baptized and confirmed in Stavanger Lutheran church, rural Ossian. He attended the Eldorado school.

On Oct. 14, 1931 he was united in marriage to Agnes Barness. They celebrated their 53rd wedding anniversary in October, 1984. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson joined the Bethany Lutheran church in 1939 the same year the church was started. Hawley farmed for several years, worked for the railroad, was a night watchman for the turkey plant at Postville and Atwood Manufacturing, West Union.

Mr. Thompson was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and two sisters.

He is survived by his wife Agnes, one daughter Bernice Latham, Waterloo; four sons: Alvin,Cedar Rapids; Leslie, Floyd Robert,LaGrande and Raymond, Marshalltown; 14 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.