Ted Thomas (1962)

CARPENTER, HENDERSON, LINCOLN, READER, THOMAS

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 8/15/2006 at 20:09:19

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, August 1, 1962

TED THOMAS Died Here Last Friday

Ted Thomas, retired farmer living in Webster township, died last Friday, July 27, 1962, at Memorial hospital in Winterset. He was 68 years of age.

Mr. Thomas had lived in Madison county since 1922. He was a native of Custer county, Nebraska, where he was born Aug. 12, 1893, a son of Joe and Ellen Reader Thomas. His early life was spent on his parents' cattle ranch in eastern Colorado, and he later engaged in ranching on his own before moving to Iowa in 1918.

He was married May 18, 1913, at Towners, Colorado, to Bernice Carpenter, who survives him. He also leaves a son, Edward R. Thomas of near Winterset; three daughters, Hermoine Thomas of Spenard, Alaska; Mrs. Marian Henderson of Hawaii and Mrs. Virginia Lincoln of Des Moines; eight grandchildren; and a brother, Allie Thomas of Holley, Colorado.

Funeral services were held Monday from the Collins Funeral home, conducted by the Rev. Arthur Weed. Burial was made in the Orient cemetery.
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Coordinator's note: Full name is Edward Raymond Thomas per his WWI Draft Record.

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