Crisp-Telfair County GaArchives Obituaries.....Thompson, Edward E. &   Mrs. A. J. January 4, 1940
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Crisp County News
                       DOUBLE FUNERAL IS HELD HERE TODAY
     Double funeral services for a mother and son are being held here this
afternoon at 3 o'clock from the chapel of the Harrison Funeral Home.
     Edward E. Thompson and his mother, Mrs. A. J. Thompson died at their home
Tuesday night within a few hours. Funeral services are to be conducted jointly.
     Mr. Thompson, 60 years old had been ill but a few days at the time of his
death. A resident of Cordele virtually all his life, he was engaged as an
electrical contractor. Through his many year's association with the people here
he had won the respect and friendship of countless persons.
     Mrs. Thompson, 80 years old, had lived in Cordele since a few years after
her marriage. She had been ill for many months. Her death occurred early
Wednesday morning in the same house on Eighth Avenue in which her son died just
before midnight Tuesday night.
     Funeral services are being conducted by the Rev. E. A. Price of Eastman.
Vocal music is by the Ellis Quartet. Following the service, interment will be in
Sunnyside cemetery.
     Mr. Thompson is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rosie Cliatt Thompson; one
daughter, Mrs. C. H. Brown, of Cordele. and one son, Leon Thompson, of Cordele;
four sister's: Mrs. G. C. Lewis, Mrs. L. C. Lewis, Mrs. George L. Riles, and
Mrs. G. B. Edge, all of Cordele; three brothers, Sid Thompson of Tallassee,
Alabama, J. C. Thompson of Fitzgerald, and Roy L. Thompson of Cordele.
    Pall bearers will be: Jake Roobin, Dr. W. W. McCollum, Dave Fountain, Louis
Noble, W. R. Bartee, and Z. W. Trussell.
     Mrs. Thompson is survived by three sons and four daughters, who are
brothers and sisters of Mr. Thompson, and one sister, Mrs. E. C. hayes, of
Tampa, Fla. 
     Pall bearers are her grandsons: G. C. Lewis, Jr.; L. C. Lewis, Jr., D. J.
Lewis, Roy Thompson, F. E. Riles and Joe Thompson. 

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