Dr. Frank Thompson (1858-1920)

THOMPSON, NELSON, OVERHOLSER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/1/2021 at 19:04:33

From Nevada Representative October 21, 1920 (page 1)

DOCTOR SUCCUMBS

Dr. Frank Thompson Dies After a Brief Illness; Was Physician and Surgeion of Note and Also High Masonry

(By W. P. Payne.)

In the early hours of Monday afternoon Oct. 18, 1920, Dr. Frank Thompson, of Cambridge, passed on from the life that now is to the life to come. His demise was preceded by an illness of only a week, and which was not considered critical until the last two days thereof. His death, therefore, came to most of his fellow citizens as an unexpected and deeply regretted event.

He ranked as one of Cambridge's prominent citizens. He was a genuine product of Story county, having been born at Iowa Center July 14, 1858. His parentage was of good Ohio stock and among the first decade of the county's pioneers. His general education was obtained in the common schools of the county and at Central University, Pella. His medical education was secured in the office of Dr. Farrer, one of our leading local physicians, and a full course in the medical department of the state university.

Following graduation, he was a successful practicing physician at Iowa Center and Cambridge, subsequently limiting his professional activities to consultations and difficult surgical operations. He was a man of scholarly habits and attainments. But over and beyond these educational credits, he was an all round interested and forceful factor in the upbuilding of the community in which he lived. He was wise and helpful along financial lines, church and school interests, and all other beneficent institutions and enterprises that promised better conditions and ideals for the life of the community.

At the time of his death he had been six years a popular postmaster. He was an enthusiastic Mason of wide association and high degree. In brief, Dr. Thompson was a valuable asset of any locality, small or large, that came within the range of his kindly and wholesome influence. His passing will be long and regretfully recalled by the people of city, county and state of which, for three score years and a tenth, he was a worthy and representative citizen.

He leaves a wife, an aged mother, and three children to mourn his death. The children are James, a student at the Iowa State College, Mrs. G. H. Nelson of Maxwell, and Mrs. Forest Overholser of New York. Her husband now holds the rand of major in the regular U. S. army.

The funeral services are being held at 2 p. m. today, from the family home in Cambridge.