WILLARD THOMPSON
18836-1963
  
Willard Thompson, 79, resident of this city, died in a local
hospital at 9:30 p.m., Saturday, September 21, after an illness of
three weeks.
  
The son of the late Rube and Babe Hampton Thompson, he was born in
West Virginia December 17, 1883.  He was a retired miner and a
member of the Freewill Baptist Church.
  
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Omha Blanton Thompson; four sons,
Ernest Thompson, Wayne, Michigan; Curtis and Harold Thompson both
of this city; Howard Thompson, Sitka; two daughters, Mrs. Lafe
Jennings, Wellston, Ohio; Mrs. Wayne Blevins, Sitka; two brothers,
Sam Thompson, Baltimore, Md.; Jim Thompson, Huntington, W.Va.; a
sister, Lizzie Meeks, Boons Camp.  Also surviving are 17
grandchildren and 2 great- grandchildren.
  
Funeral services were conducted at 10:00 p.m., Tuesday at the
Third Street Freewill Baptist Church with Ellis Hamilton and
Charles Stapleton as officiating ministers. Music was by the Sitka
Quartet.
  
Burial was in the Jaynes Cemetery.
  
PAINTSVILLE HERALD
THURSDAY
September 25, 1963
  
  

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