Very sad services were held Monday afternoon, January 14, at 3:30 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson of Deer Park for the wife of their son John Thompson Jr., who passed on of a heart attack at Devils Lake, N. D., immediately following minor surgery. The Reverend C. P. Langdon, former pastor of the Thompson family at Devils Lake and now transferred to the Ladysmith Methodist parish on Monday joining the Reverend D. W. Marks of Deer Park in conducting the service. Both eulogized Mrs. Thompson for her splendid achievement as Sunday school teacher, mother, wife and friend.
Present from a distance at the Monday service were Mrs. Thompson's sister Jessie, Mrs. Marion J. Doornink who flew from Wapato, Washington; Mrs. Glen Swanstrom (Bernice Sette) and Miss Florence Sinclair of St. Paul; Rev. and Mrs. C. W. Langdon, Ladysmith. Other relatives afar were Richard Thompson and Mrs. Louise Engberg, Milwaukee; Mrs. Oscar Otteson and daughter Dorothy, Duluth; Miss Carrie Schultz, Cedar Grove, Minn.; Miss Jane Thompson and Mr. Chas. Hoffine, Madison, Wis. L. H. Beebe, New Richmond mortician, was in charge of interment.
Mrs. Thompson was the former Edna MacDonald, born and brought up on Wall Street, the daughter of Mrs. A. L. MacDonald, now of Yakima, Wash., and the late "Allie" MacDonald. She is first to go at 38 of their large family of children. Edna, born here on March 29, 1908 was graduated from NRHS, worked in the office of Supt. of Schools L. U. St. Peter, in the Bank of New Richmond and the Federal Land Bank of St. Paul.
On May 4, 1935, she and John S. Thompson, Jr., were married in St. Paul. They have lived in Iron Mountain, Mich., Appleton, Wis., and, since 1938, in Devils Lake, N. D., where Mr. Thompson manages the J. C. Penney Store. Mrs. Thompson was a member of the First Methodist Church, the Eastern Star and the Women's Club at Devils Lake.
Her passing was altogether unexpected. She leaves as her immediate survivors her husband, two sons, Jonathan and David, and a daughter, Linda Ruth, besides her mother and circle of brothers and sisters.
They are: Anne (Mrs. Joseph Schwartz), Leona (Mrs. Harold Grove) and John MacDonald of Seattle; Irene (Mrs. Ernest Yngve) of East Stanwood, Wash.; Jane (Mrs. Victor Sholis) of Chicago; Mary (Mrs. Howard Olsen) of Wapato, Wash.; Malcolm MacDonald of Zillah, Wash.; Robert, Mt. Vernon, Wash.; Edith (Mrs. C. M. Moore) of Walla Walla, Wash.; Jessie (Mrs. Marion J. Doornink) of Wapato, Wash.
