Madeline Teliene (Langeland) THOMPSON

THOMPSON, LANGELAND, TORGERSDTR

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/21/2009 at 12:27:21

June 30, 1905 ---- July 18, 1996

CLARION, IA --Madeline T. Thompson, 91, of Clarion, died Thursday (July 18, 1996) at the Clarion Healthcare Center. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the First Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Gerald Dyste officiating. Burial will be Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Willim Funeral Home, Clarion. Madeline T. Thompson was born June 30, 1905, in Eagle Grove. Survivors two sons, Dr. Rexford L. Thompson of El Cajon, Calif,. and Dr. Neal C. Thompson of Northfield, Minn.; and five grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, 12 brothers and sisters and one son.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Mason City, Iowa
July 20, 1996

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Madeline Teliene Langeland was born June 30, 1905 at Eagle Grove, Iowa, and was the daughter of Andreas and Thea Marie Torgersdtr Langeland. She attended grade school in Eagle Grove and graduated from Clarion High School She went to Nursing School at Methodist Kahler Hospital in Rochester and then worked as a surgical nurse with the Mayo Brothers. Later she was a Clarion School and Wright County Nurse. On June 17, 1932, she was united in marriage with Lynn C. Thompson at Parker, S. D. Together they farmed the Thompson Family Farm, the oldest family farm in Wright County. Her husband died on January 1. 1988. In 1991, she moved to town. Since September of 1993, she had made her home at the Clarion Health Care Center She was a member of First Lutheran Church and an active member of the Iowa Chapter of the American Cancer Society. She started the Wright County Loan Closet in Clarion.

Madeline Teliene Thompson died Thursday morning, July 18, 1996, at the age of 91 years and 18 days. Survivors include two sons, Dr. Rexford Thompson and wife, Joyce, El Cajon, Calif., and Dr. Neale Thompson and wife, Jutta, Northfield, Minn.; and five grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, 12 brothers and sisters, her infant son, Raymond, and her husband.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday, July 24, 1996, at First Lutheran Church in Clarion, Iowa, at 2 p.m. with Reverend Gerald Dyste officiating. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery, Clarion. Willim Funeral Home of Clarion was in charge of arrangements.

Eagle Grove Eagle --- Eagle Grove, Iowa
July 24, 1996