Bernice Elizabeth Thompson (1948)

BLAGG, COLEMAN, HAMILTON, THOMPSON

Posted By: Linda Brittain
Date: 11/21/2007 at 16:02:33

The Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, Jun 10, 1948
Page 1, Column 2

BERNICE THOMPSON

Bernice Elizabeth Tompson (Thompson), daughter of John and Lulu Thompson was born May 17, 1910 in Earlham, Iowa. She was the fourth child in the family, being survived by two brothers and three sisters: Lyle of Stuart; Robert of Des Moines; Margaret Hamilton of Lebanon, Missouri; Hilda Coleman, Hazel Blagg and her mother Lulu Thompson of Ottumwa, Iowa. Her father preceded her in death in September, 1935.

She attended Earlham schools and was graduated from high school in 1927. She studied nurses training at the Methodist hospital in Des Moines, and has followed that profession ever since. She worked at the Mingus Nursing Home in Des Moines, for a number of years and has been in St. Louis the past six years in the same profession.

She has always been a member of the Methodist church.

She passed away in her sleep of a heart attack, in St. Louis, Missouri, June 3, 1948.

Funeral services were held at the Welch Funeral Home Sunday afternoon. Interment was in the Earlham cemetery.
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Coordinator's note: Her date of birth on the gravestone reads 1909 as does her Missouri Death Certificate and she was a year old in the 1910 Madison County Census.

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