THOMPSON, Bernice I. (nee Otto)(Klink) 1914-2009

KLINK, THOMPSON, OTTO, GELHAUS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/16/2009 at 15:01:03

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CHARLES CITY, IOWA - Bernice I. Thompson, 94, of Charles City died on Wednesday, April 15, 2009, at Colonial Manor in Elma.

Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Hauser Funeral Home, 1205 S. Main in Charles City, with Pastor Gary Van Wert of Trinity United Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Sunnyside Memory Gardens, rural Charles City.

Visitation will be held from 9:30 a.m. until time of services on Saturday.

Hauser Funeral Home, 641- 228-2323, www.hauserfh.com

[Published in the Globe Gazette on 4/16/2009]

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Bernice I. Thompson

Service:
10:30 AM - Saturday, April 18, 2009
Hauser Funeral Home
1205 South Main Street
Charles City, Iowa

Bernice I. Thompson, 94, of Charles City, died Wednesday, April 15, 2009, at the Colonial Manor in Elma.

Pastor Gary Van Wert of the Trinity United Methodist Church will officiate. Burial will be in Sunnyside Memory Gardens, rural Charles City.

Bernice Irene Otto Thompson was born December 14, 1914, at Rockford, the daughter of William and Clara (Gelhaus) Otto. In 1933, she graduated from the Rockford High School.

After high school she married Joe Klink. They later divorced. On June 13, 1964, she was united in marriage to Kermit Thompson at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. Bernice was employed for eight years at the Rockford Nursing Home. She was a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church, church circle, 60 plus, card club and Senior Center. Her interests included embroidery work, playing cards, flowers, traveling and taking care of the farm animals.

Living family members include her five children, Patricia Walters of Elma, Leroy (Susan Terry) of Chicago, Ill., Gerald (Aurelia) Klink of Cedar Falls, JoAnn (Paul) Le Roux of Parma, Idaho and Jon (Judy) Klink of Klemme; 10 grandchildren; 23 great grandchildren; four great-great grandchildren; three step-children, Janice (Robert) Westendorf of Mason City, Diane King of Fla. and Robert (Donna) Thompson of Rockwell; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; son, Richard Klink; granddaughter, Jeanne Walters; two sisters; and six brothers.

{Hauser Funeral Home obituary]

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