Josephine R. Thompson

Full Name: Josephine R. Thompson Age: 81 Years Sex: Female

Current address: Overland Park, Kansas

Date of death: Sunday, November 24, 2002

Place of death: Her home

Date of birth: November 26, 1920 Place of birth: Whitefish, Montana

Parents: Nels and Edith Mae Stuller Anderson

Years in current city/town: Moved to Overland Park, Kansas in June of 2002. Lived in Topeka from 1947 to 2002.

Background: Graduated from Whitefish High School in Montana. Graduated from college and taught in a one-room school in the mountains of Montana. Moved to Bremerton, Washington and worked in the shipyards during WWII. She worked as a professional seamstress. She was a homemaker. She started a card club 54 years ago which is still meeting.

Relatives: Married to: Glenn A. Thompson, August 23, 1945 in Bremerton, WA

Preceded in death by: her husband, Glenn A. Thompson on February 19, 2002
Immediate survivors:
Daughter: Janet Broxterman, Overland Park, KS
Daughter: Donna Rae Pilkington, Wheaton, IL
Son: Mike Thompson, Topeka, KS
Grandchildren: 7
Great Grandchildren: 5
Brother: Joe Anderson, Havre, Montan

Service time, day, date, place: Services will be at 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 27, 2002 at Penwell-Gabel Mid Town Chapel.

Burial: Memorial Park Cemetery Topeka, Kansas

Visitation times, place: Josephine Thompson will lie in state at Penwell-Gabel Mid Town Chapel after 8:00 a.m. Tuesday, November 26, 2002 where the family will receive friends from 7-8 p.m.

Memorial contributions, if any: American Heart Association, Memorial Processing Center, P.O. Box 1653, Topeka, KS 66601-1653