Obit of Thompson, Y B (t512) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

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Y.B. Thompson

LITTLEFIELD - Y.B. "Jumbo" Thompson, 76, died Wednesday, June 23, 1999.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today in Hammons Funeral Home Chapel in 
Littlefield with the Rev. Benny Goss, pastor of Sunset Baptist Church, 
officiating. Burial will be in Littlefield Memorial Park.

Mr. Thompson was born in Cheyenne, Okla., and was a World War II veteran 
of the Army Air Corps. In the early 1980s, he retired after 35 years in 
the trucking business. He and his wife then owned and operated Jumbo's 
Drive-In for 10 years.

Mr. Thompson was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars, Odd Fellows and 
Circle Eight Square Dancers. He also was a member of First Baptist Church 
of Littlefield.

He married Mildred Lyda in 1941 at Clovis, N. M. She died in 1987.

Survivors include a son, Gary Thompson of Borger; two daughters, Judith 
Henderson of Littlefield and Therese Sell of Rochester, Minn.; a brother, 
Charlie Thompson of Hawthorn, Calif.; nine grandchildren; and five great-
grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be to the American Lung Association.

Amarillo Globe News 25 Jun 1999
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