Thompson, Mary Carolyn 1931-1990

THOMPSON, HOTGER, EISHNER

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Date: 7/23/2007 at 09:20:57

Mary Thompson

WILLISTON, N.D. - Funeral services for Mary Carolyn Hotger Thompson, 59, of Williston, N.D., and former Newton resident, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 5 at the First Lutheran Church in North Dakota.

Newton services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.

The Rev. Jerry Brown, pastor of the Newton First United Methodist Church, will conduct services. Burial wil be in Newton Memorial Park Cemetery.

Friends may call after 9 a.m. Sunday at the Newton funeral home. Visitation with the family will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Memorials to the Jasper County Historical Society will be accepted.

She died Saturday at Mercy Hosptial in Williston, N.D., of cancer.

Survivors are her husband, Judge Gordon Thompson; a daughter, Patricia Anne Thompson, serving in the Peace Corps in Zaire, Africa; a brother, William Hotger of Newton; and her father, Clarence Hotger of Newton.

She was preceded in death by her mother.

Mrs. Thompson was a member of the Williston First Lutheran Church, served on the church council, was congregation president and co-chairman of the calling and caring committee and was an avid photographer and president-elect of the Upper Missouri Camera Club.

Past president of the North Dakota Association of Nurse Anethetists, Mrs. Thompson had worked for the Good Samaritan Hospital in Williston, was director of anesthesia at St. John's Hospital in Fargo, N.D., from 1963 to 1982, and had been associated with the department of anesthesia at Mercy Hospital in Williston until her death.

The daugher of Clarence and Verna Eichner Hotger, she was born Sept. 22, 1931 in Newton, was a 1950 graduate of Newton Community High School, attended Community College, was a 1954 graduate of Kahler Methodist School of Nursing in Rochester, Minn., and was graduated in 1963 from Minneapolis School of Anesthesia.

She was married to Gordon Thompson Nov. 15, 1963 in Minneapolis, Minn. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, September 1990