OBITUARY: Leon K. Thome, c1933-2003, Mitchell Co., Iowa

[Mitchell County Press-News online - Posted April 30, 2003]



                             Leon K. Thome
                                 
A funeral mass for Leon K. Thome, 70, was held at the Visitation Catholic
Church, Stacyville, on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 with Father Mark Reasoner
and Father John Hemann officiating.  Interment was at Visitation Cemetery,
Stacyville.  Leon died Saturday, April 26, 2003, from an unfortunate farming
accident that happened at his rural Riceville farm. 

Leon was a life long farmer and resident of Stacyville, Iowa.  His love of
the land was well known.  He will be missed by his family and many friends.
Leon and Joan spent winters in Yuma, AZ, where he enjoyed desert trips and
the sport of sand dunning and desert railing.

Leon is preceded in death by one son, Bruce was killed in an auto accident
in California in 1978, and one infant grandchild, Nathan, son of Peter and
Cheryl Thome.  Also preceding him are his parents Albert and Rose (Hoerter)
Thome, sister Arlene Grell, (known as Tootsie),  and brother Gene, (KIA
Korean War).  Also deceased is his former wife Constance Badker (Duren)

Leon is survived by his wife Joan (Hollinger).  Children: James (Babette)
Thome of Earlham; Theresa (Roy) Deines of Scottsbluff, NE; Denise (Michael)
Johnson of Kanawha; Kevin (Shonna) of Plattsmouth, NE;  Peter (Cheryl)
Thome of rural Stacyville; Christopher (Kelly) Thome of Stanwood, WA;
Catherine Logan and special friend Verne Burk of Rockwell; Stepchildren;
Robert Wood of Little Canada, MN, Julie (Arthur) Morrison of Quincy, MI,
Bruce (Lisa) of Altus, OK.  There are thirty-two grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren.  Surviving siblings are Arthur and Danial of
Stacyville, Dale of Waterloo, and Mary Jane Foxen of New Haven.

Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, St. Ansgar, Iowa was in charge of arrangements.
(641) 713-4920.




Copyright (c) 2003 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: Not necessarily related to the subject(s) of this document)

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