Mary Melissa "Millie" (Carr) Thompson (1928)

CARR, GRIMES, HETZLER, JOECKEL, THOMPSON

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Date: 3/12/2011 at 10:16:34

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, February 2, 1928
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Death of Mrs. H. Thompson

Just as we go to press we learn of the death of Mrs. Homer Thompson, of Valley Junction, a former Winterset resident. Mrs. Thompson died Monday. Funeral services will be held in Valley Junction this morning, at the Christian church at 10:30 o’clock, and the body will be brought here for burial. Short services will be at the local cemetery about one o’clock.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, February 9, 1928
Page 4

Mrs. Millie Carr Thompson, widow of the late Editor Homer Thompson, of the Valley Junction Express, died at her home, 501 Seventh Street, Valley Junction, Tuesday morning, January 31, 1928, in the seventieth year of her life.

Mrs. Thompson, whose maiden name was Carr, was a native of Illinois, having been born, presumably, at or near Mendota, in 1858. Her mother was early left a widow with two children, Emma and Mary Melissa (Millie), and later married George Hetzler, who was a widower with several children and after several years at Mendota, they moved their united family to Winterset, Iowa, where Millie graduated in 1877 from the Winterset high school, being one of the earliest of high school graduates around at least this part of Iowa. Later the family, which had been reduced by the deaths of Mrs. Hetzler and some of the Hetzler daughters, removed to Des Moines, where Millie for several years kept house for her step-father, and herself had office employment.

In February, 1904, she married Homer Thompson, who had formerly been editor of the Winterset Madisonian and was then editor of the Valley Junction Express. They made their home for a time with the Hetzlers in Des Moines; but in September, 1904, they settled in Valley Junction which remained their home during the twenty-one years of their married life and where she continued to reside during the three years that she survived him. This was the period of her most active participation in general affairs.

Mrs. Thompson had no children and her nearest relatives surviving are her step-son, Mark Thompson, and his family at 4028 Eleventh street, Des Moines, and two cousins on her mother’s side, Mrs. Mae Grimes, of Storm Lake, and Mrs. Henry Joeckel of Winterset.

Her funeral was conducted Thursday forenoon from the Christian church in Valley Junction, and the interment was at Winterset.

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