OBITUARY: Dale L. Thompson, 1904-1996, Mitchell County, Iowa [From Mason City Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa, Dec. 17, 1996 (edited)] Dale L. Thompson OSAGE, IOWA--Dale L. Thompson, 92, of Osage, died Monday, Dec. 16, 1996, at the Good Samaritan Center in St. Ansgar. Funeral services will be held on Thursday at Champion Funeral Home, with the Rev. Ted Stowers officiating. Burial will be in the Osage Cemetery. Dale L. Thompson was born Jan. 16, 1904, in Clarion, Iowa. Survivors include two daughters, Phyllis Barker of Little Cedar, and Shirley Sletten of Osage; one stepdaughter, Esther Schafer of Muscatine; two sons, Dean Thompson of Osage, and Marvin Thompson of Mason City; 14 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and several stepgrandchildren and stepgreat- grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, first wife, second wife, one brother, one sister and one stepdaughter. Copyright 2004, Kermit Kittleson (for IaGenWeb)