Russell Thompson (1925)

THOMPSON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 12/11/2010 at 07:23:48

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, January 22, 1925
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Russell, the only son of Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Thompson, passed away early Monday morning, after a long illness, in which he battled bravely against odds, and bore his affliction with remarkable Christian fortitude.

He came down with a severe attack of influenza, while doing Y.M.C.A. work at Camp Lee, Virginia. From this illness, tuberculosis developed. He was a young man of much promise, a graduate of Grinnell college and was preparing for the practice of medicine, when overtaken by illness.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, January 22, 1925
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Russell Thompson was born in Monroe, Iowa, March 3, 1896, and when one and one-half years of age, came with his parents to Winterset, and here he grew to manhood, attending the public school, from which he graduated with the class of 1913. In September of the same year he entered Grinnell college from which he graduated with a degree in the science in June, 1917. He taught the following year in Kingfisher college in Oklahoma, and Aug. 1st, enlisted in the Y.M.C.A. war work and was stationed at Camp Lee, Virginia, as educational secretary. Here in the following October, he had a severe attack of the influenza, from which he never fully recovered, after spending fourteen months in a sanitarium in New Mexico for the benefit of his health, he entered the University of Colorado for the study of medicine, and though his health was gradually failing, he completed two years of his medical course.

A year and a half ago, he realized that his condition would finally prove fatal, and wished to come home, at which place he passed away on Monday, Jan. 19th.

At eleven years of age, he united with the United Presbyterian church of Winterset, then under the pastoral care of Rev. J. H. White, and to the public profession then made he always remained faithful. In all the activities of life, the “things of the spirit” were given most attention. His Bible was his daily companion and as the flesh grew weaker, his faith became stronger, and with clear vision and perfect confidence, he faced the great here after and in his last consciousness he said, “In my Father’s house are many ------, if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, there you may be also.” Thus a beautiful life came to an end, “like the end of a perfect day.”

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