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Submitted: 9/6/22 • Approved: 9/8/22 • Last Updated: 9/11/22 • R535885-G535885-S3
Arthur C. Thompson
February 4, 1887-February 24, 1971
Mason
Cora B. Short Thompson
February 2, 1895-May 30, 1963
Order of Eastern Star
*Photo, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary Arthur C. Thompson
A residence of Deaf Smith County since 1901. Funeral services for him were conducted by Dr. Gerald Mann, Pastor of First Baptist Church. Burial was in West Park Cemetery with Masonic Lodge members as Pall bearers. He was born in Marietta, Ok.and a member of the J. D. Thompson family which came to this county from Marietta and lived first on one of the largest ranches of the area, then moved to Hereford. He married Cora Short at Hamilton, Kan. in 1915 and her death occurred in May, 1963.
Survivors are a son, Arthur C. Thompson Jr. of Amarillo, and two sisters Mrs. Ida Davis of Amarillo and Mrs. Carrie Sisk of Bakersfield, Calif.
*Obituary Cora Short Thompson
Mrs. Thompson died at 8 a.m. Thursday in her room at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Dallas, apparently of a heart attack. She was born Feb. 2, 1895, in Greenwood County, Kan.
She had managed Little's Department Store here for many years and was on a buying trip for the store at the time of death.
She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star.
(Published in Amarillo Sunday Globe-News, June 2, 1963)
Contributed on 9/6/22 by neldapat
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