Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  MRS. VERA MATILDA (SWANSON) THOMPSON

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MRS. VERA MATILDA (SWANSON) THOMPSON

OCNS - June 18, 2002 - Mrs. Vera Matilda (Swanson) Thompson, 79, formerly 
of Barnsdall, Oklahoma, died Saturday, June 15, at her family residence in 
Kanab, Utah.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, June 21, 2002 in the 
Sanctuary of the Barnsdall First Baptist Church with the Reverend Joe 
Reeves officiating.   Committal prayers and interment will be directed in 
the East Ethel Reese Cemetery by The Arnold Moore-Barnsdall Funeral Home.

Mrs. Thompson will lie in state in the Arnold Moore-Barnsdall Funeral Home 
where friends may call for their visitation on Thursday and until she is 
removed to the church for services and final rites on Friday afternoon.

Vera Matilda Swanson was born April 7, 1923 in Barnsdall, Osage County, 
Oklahoma, the daughter of Bart R. and Ludie Belie (Soward) Swanson.   She 
was reared and received her education in Barnsdall and was graduated with 
the Barnsdall High School Senior class of 1941.   She and Charles W. Smith 
were married and he preceded her in death.   She moved to Kanab in 1986 
and she and Henry Garn Thompson were married on August 9, 1998 in Kanab 
where they continued to live in retirement. 

Mrs. Thompson was a member of the United Church of Kanab-Fredonia.   She 
was an avid collector of antiques and shoes and loved and enjoyed spending 
time with her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Survivors include her husband, Garn Thompson and her children, Bill 
(Michelle) Smith and Marilyn (Jim) Kurtz all of Kanab; brothers and 
sisters, Boyd (Jean) Swanson of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, Ray (Edna) Swanson of 
Barnsdall, Vivian (Hal) Lewis, Neosho, Missouri, Loyal (Zella) Swanson of 
Barnsdall, Everett (Martha) Swanson of Independence, Kansas and Douglas 
Lynn Swanson of Dewey, Oklahoma; grandchildren, Jessica Ferrand, Jennifer 
Smith, Bart Smith, Bret Smith, Blake Smith, Robin Coleman and Dean Kurtz 
and twelve great grandchildren.   She was preceded in death by her parents, 
husbands, Charles Smith and Chic Evans; son, Donald Smith; sister, Pearl 
Smith and brother, Jess Swanson.