Clyde Vivian THOMPSON

THOMPSON, COONCE, ARCHER, MARKMON, VINSAND, TWAIT, LARSON, MARKMAN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/18/2009 at 15:23:31

Cresco Times Plain Dealer, Iowa
March 2004

Funeral services for Clyde Thompson were held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 13 at the Lindstrom Funeral Home in Cresco with Rev. Phillip Olson officiating. Interment will be at a later date in the spring at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Lime Springs. Clyde, 100, died Wednesday, March 10, 2004 at Rotary Ann Home in Eagle Grove.

Clyde Vivian Thompson was born September 14, 1903 at Knox County, IN the son of Robert and Blanche Thompson (Coonce), he was raised and educated near Worthington, IN. On December 20, 1922 he married Maysel Archer. He worked as a coal miner, before moving to Iowa in 1925 where he worked as a farm hand. Later farming on his own near Hardy in 1943. They purchased a farm near Lime Springs in 1956 and continued farming until 1973. He retired that year and moved to Ridgeway. He still helped nearby farmers and he and Maysel raised a huge garden and beautiful flowers. After Maysel's death in 1986, he lived at the same home until May of 1999 when he entered Rotary Ann Nursing Center in Eagle Grove where he could be closer to his son and daughter.

He is survived by one son: Milford of Fort Dodge; one daughter: Vivian Markmon [Markman] of Hardy; two sisters: Mina Vinsand of Humboldt and Mildred Twait of Dextor, MN; many grandchildren; and great-grandchildren. Clyde was preceded in death by his wife Maysel; one daughter: Maxine Larson; one son: Warren; two grandchildren; his parents; one brother: Robert; and one sister: Lula.