Elvera Thompson 1916 - 1999

THOMPSON HENNING CLAUSEN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/13/2014 at 00:46:37

24 February 1999

UTE, Iowa — Elvera Thompson, 82, of Ute died Monday, Feb. 22, 1999, at Denison Care Center in Denison, Iowa.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Ute, with the Rev. Edgar Bode officiating. Burial will be in St. Clair Cemetery. Visitation will be 2 to 8 p.m. today at Armstrong Funeral Home in Ute.

Mrs. Thompson was born Nov. 7, 1916, near Charter Oak, Iowa, the daughter of Otto and Martha (Henning) Clausen. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. She attended Immanuel Lutheran School and country school.

She married Richard S. Thompson on Sept. 26, 1932, in Ute. The couple was employed with Walter Funeral Home in Ute for 25 years. They also served as custodians for St. Paul's Lutheran Church for 25 years. He died Sept. 5, 1981.

She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church and enjoyed raising flowers and handiwork.

Survivors include two daughters and their husbands, Mary Jane and Donald Petersen of Denison and Arlynn and Larry Gittins of Harlan, Iowa; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and two sisters-in-law, Dorothy Clausen of Wall, Iowa, and Darlene Clausen of Granger, Iowa.

She was preceded. in death by a son, Michael and a daughter, Christine.