OBITUARY: Richard A. Thompson, 1936-1997, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Based on Obituary in Mason City Globe Gazette; July 29, 1997]




                        Richard A. Thompson

Richard A. Thompson, age 61, a resident of the Iowa Veterans Home in
Marshalltown, Iowa, and formerly of Osage, Iowa, died Sunday, July 27,
1997, at the Marshalltown Medical Surgical Center.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday, July 30th, at the Chapel at the
Iowa Veterans Home, with burial to follow at the home cemetery.  The Estel
Perrin Avey Funeral Home, 212 E. State St., Marshalltown, was in charge of
arrangements.

Richard was born in Mitchell, Iowa, on Jan. 14, 1936, the son of Archie
and Wanda (Knight) Thompson.  Reared and educated in Osage, Iowa, he
attended schools there.

In 1954, he enlisted in the United States Army and served until 1956. He
later re-enlisted in the Army in 1962. In 1978, he came to the Veterans
Home, where he has lived since.

His memberships include the AMVETS of which he was a former District
Commander and a former Post Commander; in 1996, he became a lifetime
member. He was also a long-time member of the Frank Lewis Glick Post 46
of the American Legion.

Survivors include his mother, Wanda Thompson of Osage; two sisters, Dorothy
(Mrs. Leonard) Mostek of Mitchell, and Janis Leegaard of Forest City; two
brothers, David Thompson of Kearney, Neb., and Randy Thompson of LeRoy, Minn.

Preceding him in death were his father, two brothers and one sister.



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