Obit of Thompson, Frances Irene Tracy - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 19 Jun 2005 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Thompsxon, Tracy, Stauber, Moncure, Nowak, Glieter, Konicky, Gonzales Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/6061 Frances Irene Tracy Thompson, 82, was the daughter of Olive Stauber Tracy and Eddie Tracy. After her Mothers death she went to live with her Grandmother Ida Stauber at Roll, Oklahoma. She graduated from Crawford High School, Crawford, Oklahoma in the class of 1939 at the age of sixteen and Southwestern Institute of Technology in Weatherford at nineteen, marrying the love of her life, Leslie Paul Thompson, Jr. before he left to serve in the Army. She had their first child, Tracy, while he was serving in the South Pacific, thousands of miles away. When Les decided to join the Methodist ministry in 1953, she began teaching to help support their family of seven while he completed his education. That was the beginning of a teaching career that would span four decades and touch the lives of thousands of students. With commitment, companion, and a natural authority that seemed hard to believe but actually came from her sweetness and grace. She inspired students at Littleton Junior High School in Colorado and John Marshall, Capitol Hill, and Green Pasture in Oklahoma City. She challenged advanced students and lifted her slower learners beyond their expections. She returned to college, earning a masters degree in 1969 from the University of Central Oklahoma aqnd became a reading specialist for the Oklahoma City Public Schools until she retired in 1986. At the same time, she served in the demanding role of Minister's wife at Hilcrest United Methodist, the Skyline Ministry, Fort Cobb Methodist, and the Business Girl's Inn in Shreveport, Louisana, the B.C. Clark United Methodist, Blanchard United Methodisst, and several other United Methodist church. While teaching, she also managed to be the mother that her children's friends all wished they had. Recently honored as fifty-five year member of the PEO, she was president of Chapter CF in Watonga and, more recently, Chapter DN in Oklahoma City. She held a number of offices at the United Methdist Women. An avid quilter, she belonged to the quilting group of the United Methodist Church and has a quilt feature in the book Heavenly Patchwork. She was proceded in death by her parents, her grandmother, and two brothers, George Tracy and Bill Henry Tracy, and by her brother-in-law Daniel Thompson. She is survived by her husband, Les Thompson, who loved her for more than 60 years; by her brother Edward Joseph Tracy and his three children; and by her children and their spouses and partners: Tracy Moncure, Stephen Moncure, Kathleen Thompson, Michael Nowak, Paul Thompson, Jan Glieter, Michael Thompson, Shirley Thompson, Sara Thompson and Karen Konicky. She is also survived by her sister-in-law and best friend, Jeannie Thompson and her sister and brother-in-law Ted Thompson and Joyce Thompson and by her grandchildren Jody Gonzales Lancaster and her husband Davib, Shannon Mancure, Hely Thompson, Zachary Thompson, Cooper Thompson and Spencer Thompson and many beloved nieces and nedphews. Tracy and Devin gave Frances her only great grandchild. Frances suffered an aneurysm Sunday morning during communion at the Church of the Goold Shephedrd United Methodist Church. She died on Sunday night, May 1, 2005 in the University Hospital, not having regained consciouness. Services were held at the Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church with interment following at the Yukon Cemetery. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 12-May-2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html