John Arthur Thompson (1953)

ANDERSON, BROWN, BURRES, MOODY, ROY, THOMPSON

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson
Date: 2/4/2012 at 22:59:59

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Kansas City, Kansas
May 1953

Arthur Thompson

Arthur Thompson of Sebetha, passed away Sunday evening, May 3, 1953, at the University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, Kansas, where he had undergone an operation on Tuesday before.

John Arthur Thompson was born August 24, 1872, at Winterset, Iowa. He was 76 years, eight months and nine days of age at the time of his death.

Arthur was the son of the late Samuel and Margaret Thompson. When quite young, his parents moved from Iowa to the state of Colorado, where his father did lay missionary work. While living in Colorado his mother passed away, after which his father came to Kansas, when Arthur was only five years of age and settled in the Harmony neighborhood south of Sabetha. It was here that he spent most of his youthful days.

He was married to Miss Fleeta Edna Moody of Oneida, March 3, 1909. Five children were born to this union. The couple set up housekeeping on a farm near Herington, Kansas. They lived in Morris and Dickson Counties until they moved with his family to a farm in the Woodlawn community, 7 1/2 miles south and east of Oneida in 1921. It was here that Mrs. Thompson died on April 13, 1929. However, Mr. Thompson continued to make the farm his home until a little over a year ago, when he and his daughter Elma, moved to Sabetha.

Mr. Thompson is survived by his five children: Miss Emma Thompson of Sabetha, and her twin brother Elvin Thompson of Sharon, Pa., Ronald Thompson, of the United States Navy, stationed at Athens, Greece, Orvis Thompson, of the farm near Woodlawn, and Wilber Thompson, of St. Louis, Mo., seven grandchildren, four sisters, Gertrude Roy, of Wilsey, Kansas, Mrs. Elsie Anderson, of Leott, Kansas, Mrs. Helen Brown, of Russell, Kansas, and Mrs. Eva Burres, of Topeka, Kansas; other relatives and a host of friends.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the Reinhardt Funeral Home in Sabetha, and at 2:00 o'clock at the Oneida Methodist Church, where he held membership, conducted by the Rev. John W. Campbell, Minister of the Sabetha Methodist Church, and the Rev. Gene Taylor, pastor of the Oneida church. Interment was made on the family plot in the Oneida Cemetery.

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