Mrs. Mary Thompson (1833-1932)

THOMPSON, FOWLER, GRAVES, KREEMER, WHITE, JENKINS

Posted By: John Evan Davis (email)
Date: 2/26/2012 at 07:51:25

Ottumwa Courier November 18, 1932
Nonagenarian Is Called By Death
Mother Of Mrs. E. D. Fowler Dies At Age Of 99 Years
Mrs. Mary Thompson, 99 years old, mother of Mrs. E. D. Fowler, 218 Oakwood Ave., died at the Fowler home at 8:25 PM Thursday, after of illness of more than a month. Although Mrs. Thompson had been in poor health for some time the immediate cause of her death was believed to have been a shock suffered following the death of her son in law, E. D. Fowler, October 14, at the St. Joseph Hospital. Mrs. Thompson, who prior to her marriage was Mary Westfall Botkin, born in September 2, 1833 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta. When she was 17 years old she was married to Pryor B. Thompson, who died September 4, 1875. During his life the family lived on a farm in southern Illinois. Mr. Thompson was an educator, studied law, was legal advisor to his neighbors and taught school and operated a farm. Surviving Mrs. Thompson, who was the mother of nine children, seven of whom preceded her in death, four in infancy, are her daughter, Mrs. Fowler of Ottumwa; a son, T. J. Thompson, of Virden, Illinois; grandchildren, Howard and Cecil Graves, living in southern Illinois, and Mrs. Harry Kreemer of Peoria, Illinois, J. E. White and O. B. White of Springfield Illinois, C. M. White of Modesto, Illinois, and Mrs. J. F. Jenkins of Fresno, California. The great-grandchildren surviving are Mary Jane White, daughter of O. B. White and Pauline, Edward and Paul White, children of J. E. White. Mrs. Thompson has made her home with her daughter here for the past 14 years. She usually spent the summers with her son in Virden, with the exception of the past two years. Mrs. Thompson was a lifelong member of the Baptist church. The body was removed to the Lester Jay funeral home where short services for members of the immediate family and close friends were to be held at 5 PM today, conducted by the Rev. L. H. Matheus, rector of the Trinity Episcopal Church. The body was to be taken over the Burlington railroad at 10 PM at night to Springfield, Illinois where burial will be made in the Oakridge cemetery.