St. Clair County Obits

GEORGE LEE THOMPSON

24 August 1987
George L. Thompson
George Lee Thompson, 78, 602 S. Hill, was pronounced dead on arrival at Mercy Hospital at 11:25 p.m. Saturday. He was born Dec. 17, 1908 at St. Clair County, Mo., the son of John Lewis and Maggie Lucinda Lasater Thompson. He married Edith Marie Edgar March 3, 1928 at Fort Scott.
Mr. Thompson, a 40-year employee of the Missouri-Pacific Railroad, retired as an engineer in 1973. The Thompsons lived in Yates Center from 1972 to 1978 when they returned to Fort Scott.
Mr. Thompson was a member of Gilead Masonic Lodge, AF&AM, Yates Center, and the United Transportation Union.
Survivors include the wife of the home; a son, Bobby G. Thompson, Harrisburg, Pa.; a daughter, Maxine Linde, Yates Center; two brothers, Miles Thompson, Fort Scott, and Ernest Thompson, Sisteres, Ore.; two sisters, Virgie Hall, Fort Scott, and Ruby Waite, Wichita; 12 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren. A daughter, Hazel M. Nutter, died Jan. 14, 1980.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Cheney's Memorial Chapel.
Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, in care of Dorothy Carr, 306 S. Judson, Fort Scott, Kan, 66701, or they may be left at Cheney's.