Thompson, Thomas A. – 1904-1991

HANSEN, HOPKINS, MOORE, SORENSEN, THOMPSON

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 9/4/2021 at 13:44:12

Rev. T. A. Thompson Rites Today
The Rev. Thomas A. Thompson, 86, of Baxter, who served as pastor of the Baxter Congregational United Church of Christ for 18 years before his retirement in 1976, died Monday, October 28, at Colonial Manor in Baxter.
Graveside rites will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 31 (today), at Restland Cemetery in Baxter.
Memorials to the family may be left at the funeral home.
Survivors are his wife, LaVonne; a son, David of Des Moines; a grandson; a brother, Alton Thompson of Arcadia, Calif.; and a sister, Hilda Moore of Ventura, Calif.
He was preceded in death by his parents, first wife, Pearl, three brothers and a sister.
The Rev. Mr. Thompson, a graduate of the Moody Bible School of Chicago, Ill. and Wheaton, Ill. College, served churches in Dunlap, Avoca, Whiting, and Clay Center, Kans., before coming to Baxter in 1958.
The son of Anders and Hansend Sorensen Thompson, he was born Nov. 22, 1904 in Harlan.
He was raised in Dannebrog, Neb. And attended Dannebrog Public Schools.
He was married to Pearl Hansen in May, 1931, in Dannebrog, Neb., and after her death in 1955, to LaVonne Hopkins, Aug. 14, 1956, at Whiting.
Source: The Jasper County Tribune (Colfax, IA); Thursday, October 31, 1991, page 6, col. 4 (Baxter Section )