Fern Catherine Rathbun Thompson (-2010)

THOMPSON

Posted By: Tri-County Times
Date: 1/23/2010 at 10:56:10

THE TRI-COUNTY TIMES, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, January 21, 2010.

Fern Catherine Rathbun Thompson, 92, of Madrid died Sunday January 17, 2010 at the Madrid Home. Services were held Wednesday, January 20 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Slater.

She graduated from Napier High School. On June 11, 1937 she married Myron Thompson and they lived on a farm just SE of Slater. In 1941 they bought a farm west of Kelley and she lived there for 59 years. She took an active part in farming besides always being a good homemaker and Norwegian cook. She was a Kelley school cook for a number of years.

Fern loved her family, her farm life, traveling (from going along with Myron for implement parts to touring Norway), geneology and her friends. She and Myron visited all fifty states and also enjoyed spending many winters in Texas.

She is survived by her 4 children, Duane, Donna, Linda and Denise; nine grandchildren; and fifteen great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Myron in 1987, an infant brother Harold, and her younger brother, Lynn.

Memorials may be directed to the Madrid Home to the ACTES Fund or Israel Family Hospice House.

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