Thompson - Clarence Earl
Clarence E. THOMPSON
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review, Tuesday June 15, 1937
Waveland, June 15 -- Clarence Earl Thompson, 49, local business man, died suddenly at his home here at 2 o'clock Tuesday morning following a heart attack.
Mr. Thompson who operated a cigar store here, was well known throughout the county. For two years he conducted a cigar store on east Main street in Crawfordsville, and at other times was employed in other cigar stores there. Following the sale of his Crawfordsville store, he was in business at Frankfort for several years. He had been operating the store in Waveland for the past four months. He also operated a store in Greencastle at one time.
Thompson served as a state game warden for two years. Born January 31, 1888, on a farm seven miles west of Crawfordsville, he was the son of T. C. and Annie Thompson. he was first married to June VanCleave in 1911. She died in September, 1919. He was married a second time to Cora McCormick in 1925. Mr. Thompson was a member of the Yountsville Methodist church and of the Elks and Moose lodges.
The survivors include the father, T. C. Thompson; one son, Ralph K. Thompson, of Crawfordsville; three sisters, Mrs R. D. Bible of Waynetown; Mrs Virgil Robbins of Brook and Mrs H. V. Miller of Franklin; two brothers, J. Walter Thompson of near Yountsville, former county commissioner, and Frank G. Thompson of Bluffton, prominent publisher and member of the state assembly.
The body was removed to the Utterback and Murphy funeral home in Crawfordsville and will be kept there until Thursday morning when it will be taken to the Elks home in Crawfordsville.
Funeral services will be held at two o'clock Thursday afternoon. The Rev. Guy Tremaine of the Yountsville Methodist church, of which the deceased was a member, will officiate. Ritualistic service will be conducted at the home by the lodge and burial will be made at Oak Hill Cemetery.- - kbz
Source: Waveland Independent
Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana
June 17, 1937
Clarence E. THOMPSON, who brought the poolroom from Will Shular a few weeks ago died at 2 on Tuesday monring. He had an attack of acute heart trouble a few days previously and had since been confined to his bed most of the time. He had a room at the Ivy Inn. Mr. and Mrs. Brown had just returned from Crawfordsville where they had taken their son, Charles, Jr. to be operated on for appendicitis, when they heard a noise in Thompson's room. Dr. Noblitt was hurridly summoned but Thompson was dead when he got there. The body was taken to an undertakers parlors in Crawfordsville where funeral services were held today from Elks Hall. Mr. Thompson was the son of T.C. and Ann Thompson and was born in Crawfordsville Jan 31, 1888. He was twice married, first to June VanCleave, who died in 1919, leaving one son, Ralph R. Thompson and again in 1925 to Cora McCormick, who survives as do the father, TC Thompson. He was a member of Yountsville Methodist Church.
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