Dora Helena (Siewertsen) THOMPSON

THOMPSON, SIEWERTSEN, JOHANNSON, RABON, CLINE, HINRICKSEN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/22/2011 at 16:51:18

September 16, 1876 --- June 28, 1968

Creston News Advertiser -- Iowa
June 29, 1968

DORA THOMPSON DIES AT AFTON

Afton, IA -- Dora H. Thompson, 91, of Afton died at 8:05 P.M. Friday at Greater Community Hospital. She had been a patient there the past week. Funeral services will be held at 2 P.M. Monday at the Afton Methodist Church with Rev. James M. Morris officiating and burial in Greenlawn Cemetery. The body is at the Stroud Funeral Home in Afton.

The daughter of Godber and Kathryn Johannson Siewertsen, she was born September 15, 1876 near Mason City and lived in the Afton community for 51 years and the last four years at Moores Nursing Home in Afton. On July 3, 1874 she was married to Chris Henry Thompson and he preceded her in death. Her husband was Union County sheriff at one time. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Ed (Edna) Rabon of Winachee, [Wenatchee] Washington, 3 sons, Gordon and Walter of Afton and Leonard of Sac City, 18 grandchildren and a number of great great grandchildren. She was a long time member of the Afton Methodist Church.

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Creston News Advertiser -- Iowa
July 9, 1968

Dora Helena Thompson of Afton passed away Friday, June 28, 1968 at Greater Community Hospital in Creston at the age of 91 years, 9 months and 12 days. Dora Helena Siewertsen was born near Mason City, Iowa, September 16, 1876. She was the daughter of Godber and Kathryn Johannson Siewertsen. She was married in 1894 to Chris H. Thompson. To this union eight children were born. They moved to the Afton community in 1917. For the last 4 years she had lived in Moores Nursing Home in Afton.

Survivors are three sons, Gordon and Walter of Afton, Leonard of Sac City and one daughter, Edna Rabon of Wenatchee, Washington, eighteen grandchildren, a number of great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. Her husband, three daughters and one son preceded her in death.

Funeral services were held Monday, July 1, 1968 in the Methodist Church with the Rev. James Morris officiating. She had been a long time member of the Methodist Church. Clordell Wyatt sang "Beyond the Sunset' and "City Four Square" accompanied by Helen Ricks at the organ. Bearers were the grandsons, Donald Cline, Darold Cline, Mervin Hinricksen, Wayne Thompson, Bill Thompson and Ricky Thompson. Burial was in the Greenlawn Cemetery in Afton.

[lived ca. 1899 in Dows, Wright County, Iowa]