St. Clair County Obits

RESSIE ESTEL THOMPSON

Funeral Card

Jan. 28, 1908 --- March 16, 1973
65 Years, One Month, 11 Days
Services: Church of God (Holiness)
Monday, March 19, 1973, 2 P.M.
Minister: Rev. R.J. Patterson
Pianist: Mrs. Elsa Mae Kneale
Soloist: Gary Daugherty
"How Great Thou Art"
"Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone"
Pallbearers: Robert Foster, Dale Piepmeier, Charles McClellan, Don Bain, Charles Moore, Don Belew
Interment: Appleton City Cemetery

Appleton City Journal
22 March 1973
Ressie Thompson Memorial Service
Memorial services were held at the Church of the God Holiness Monday afternoon, March 19, 1973 for Ressie E. Thompson, 65, who passed away in Kansas City, Kansas, Friday, March 16. Rev. R.J. Patterson officiated. Mrs. Elsa Mae Kneale, pianist, accompanied Gary Daugherty, as he sang "How Great Thou Art" and "Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone".
Pallbearers were: Robert Foster, Dale Piepmeier, Charles McClellan, Don Bain, Charles Moore, Don Belew.
Interment was in the Appleton City cemetery under the direction of the Eckhoff Funeral Home.
Ressie E. McClellan was born January 28, 1908 at Mountain View, Mo., to William and Verta Belew McClellan. In 1926 she was united in marriage to Clarence Thompson and to this union one daughter was born. The first few years of their marriage was lived in and around Lowry City. Later they moved to Appleton City.
She was employed for several years at Ellett Memorial Hospital where she worked as medical and x-ray technician. Her hobby was growing flowers. She was a loving mother and grandmother to her family.
She was preceded in death by her husband, father and one brother. Survivors include her daughter, Helen Nadine Burkentine, her mother, Mrs. Wayne Shoemaker, two sisters, Ruth Myers, and Nadine Dougherty, three brothers, Wayne, Glen and Blane McClellan, four granddaughters, Kathy Foster, Lucille, Brenda and Karen Burkentine, a great-grandson, Brian Foster, one son-in-law, Clifton Burkentine, a grandson-in-law, Robert Foster and a host of other relatives and friends.