Obit: Thompson, John (1872 - 1955)

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Email: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Thompson, Siggelkow

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 10/20/1955

Thompson, John (1872 - 19 OCT 1955)

John Thompson passed away at 6:30 this morning at his farm home east of Redville (Taylor Co., Wis.), succumbing to a stroke which he first suffered late yesterday afternoon.  He was 83 years of age and had lived on his present farm since 1922.

Although funeral arrangements are not entirely completed friends may call at the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home, city.  Services will be held at two o’clock Saturday afternoon but it is not yet known whether they will be conducted from the funeral home or a church.  Rev. H. D. Wagner will officiate at the final rites and burial will be made in Riverside Cemetery.

Survivors are his wife, Beatrice; three sons, Herb, route 2, Withee, Orville and Arlee, both of route 2, Owen; one daughter, Mrs. C. W. (Hazel) Siggelkow; and 13 grandchildren.