St. Clair County Obits

MARY THOMPSON

St. Clair County Democrat,
28 May 1931
Mrs. Mary Thompson, wife of John Thompson, who lives about seven miles south of Osceola, died Saturday evening about seven o'clock, after a lingering illness of over three months.

Mary Langdon was born in Harrison County, Mo., December 19, 1868. When she as a small child, she moved with her parent to that section of St. Clair county where she has lived ever since and where she died.

She was married to John Thompson, January 24, 1898. To their union were born five girls, the oldest having died young. Those living are Mrs. Lawrence Mefford and Mrs. Clifford Mefford, both of Cincinnati, Ohio; Miss Vern Thompson of the same address and Thelma of the home address. Besides her own children she has been the stepmother of four children, three boys and one girl, who are as follows: Mrs. C.W. Peterman of Centerville, Kans., Wm. Thompson of Vista, MO., and Edgar Thompson of Joplin; Claud, having passed away July 29, 1929. She was grandmother to 13 children and is survived by five brothers, Will Langdon of Loyalton, Calif., Ed of Klamath Falls, Oregon, John of Camp Verde, Arizona, Orville of Osceola and Schell of Appleton City.

When a small girl she united with the Pleasant Valley Christian church where her membership still remains.

Mrs. Thompson has been in failing health for about nine years, gradually slipping backward until about twelve weeks ago when she took to her bed from which she has not since been freed, and through it all she has been a patient sufferer. Her children have all been near her bedside for about the past two weeks, knowing that the end was near. She was all that is embraced in the term, wife, mother, friend and neighbor and her bereaved ones have the sympathy of the entire community.

Her funeral rites were held in the Pleasant Valley Christian church Sunday afternoon, May 24, by H.E. Carpenter, pastor of the Osceola Christian church, after which the remains were lain to rest in Horn cemetery. There was a large number of relatives and friends and a profusion of floral offerings to bear witness to the high esteem in which she was held.