Thompson - Clarence
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 19-Feb-1964 p. 14
Kingman - Clarence Thompson, 77-year-old former resident of this community, died Monday afternoon at the home of a niece, Doris Farthington, near Attica. He had sustained a heart attack earlier in the day. Mr. Thompson was an electrician with Frankfort Power & Light Co. 25 years before retiring in 1951. He was born Nov. 25, 1886 at Cates, son of Willard and Laura Ann Swank Thompson. He was married to Edna West. Survivors include the niece at whose home he died; five sons, Harold and Paul, both of California, Charles of Michigan City, Jim of Muncie and Clarence, who is serving in the U. S. Army and is stationed in Georgia; two daughters, Mrs. Thelma Blazer of Portland and Mrs. Martha White of Covington; 15 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by three brothers and three sisters. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Woodrow Funeral Home here with Rev. Larry McMillan officiating. Interment will be in Harveysburg Cemetery north of here. Friends may call at the funeral home. - kbz