OBITUARY: Sadie Caroline Thompson, Worth County, Iowa

[ Mason City Globe Gazette online -- July 31 2002 ]



                         Sadie Caroline Thompson

KENSETT - Sadie Caroline Thompson, 83, of Kensett, died Monday (July 29,
2002). at the Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa in Mason City. 

Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Bethany Lutheran Church in
Kensett, with the Rev. Selmer G. "Sam" Hernes officiating. Burial will be in
the Sunset Rest Cemetery in Northwood. 

Friends may call from 5 until 7 p.m. today at the Bride Colonial Chapel,
110 E. Spring St. in Manly, and one hour prior to service time on Thursday
at the Church. 

The family of Sadie Caroline Thompson has requested that memorial
contributions be made in her memory. 

Sadie Caroline Thompson was born on Jan. 9, 1919, in Worth County, Iowa,
near Northwood, the daughter of Chris and Nelina (Johnson) Stromley. 

She attended and received her education in the rural Worth County schools
near Northwood. After completing her schooling she worked for various farmers
in Cerro Gordo and Worth County. 

She was united in marriage to Glenn Thompson on April 21, 1940, at the Trinity
Lutheran Church in Mason City. He preceded her in death in August of 1968.
After their marriage she helped her husband on the farm in Danville Township
in Worth County. 

Sadie worked for 28 years for the Deluxe Products (which is now Fleetguard)
in Lake Mills until her retirement. After her retirement, she was the
custodian at the bank in Joice, and also did house cleaning for various
people in Worth County and Winnebago County. 

She was a hard worker, enjoyed search word puzzles, playing solitaire cards,
and enjoyed taking Sunday drives. 

She was a member of Bethany Lutheran Church in Kensett. 

Left to cherish her memory are her son, Herbert Thompson and his wife,
Caroline, of Kensett; three grandchildren, Harold Thompson and special friend,
Sarah Hall, of Annandale, Minn., Lori Follmuth and her husband, Ed, of Manly,
and David Thompson, of Kensett; three great-grandchildren, Chris Thompson,
Miranda and Stephanie Follmuth, all of Manly; brothers and sisters, Obert
Stromley and his wife, DeAlda, of Marble Rock, Rueben Stromley and his wife,
Helen, of Mason City, Esther Nelson, of Northwood and Ruby Stromley of Joice;
nine half brothers and sisters; a sister-in-law, Eleanor Stromley, of
Northwood; and a special friend, Jane Weible of Rochester, Minn.; as well
as other relatives and friends. 

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Glenn Thompson; two
brothers, George and Chester Stromley; and a half-brother, Roger Stromley. 

Bride Colonial Chapel, (641) 454-2242. 




Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: Not necessarily related to the subject of this obituary.)

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