Submitted by: Dan Rich

Dorothy M. Thompson

July 6, 1912 - April 17, 1998

South Bend Tribune 4/19/1998

SOUTH BEND - Dorothy M. (Colip) Thompson, 85, died on Friday, April 17, in her home at St. Paul's Retirement Community, where she and her husband were charter residents. She had resided there for over 17 years. She was a lifelong member of the First Brethren Church. Daughter of Charles and Maude Colip, she graduated from Central High School where she participated in choral activities and, along with three fellow students, represented Indiana in the National Student Chorus. Dorothy graduated from the Northwestern School of Nursing, completed her Bachelor's degree, and did postgraduate work at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Ill. She served as a pediatric nurse and supervisor during the 1950s at Memorial Hospital. In 1934 she married Allen Ried Thompson. They were associated with Colip Brothers Electric for over 50 years. She was preceded in death by her husband Ried; and by her brothers, Charles (Jane) and William (Olga) Colip. She is survived by her sister, Mary G. "Gerry" Colip and children, Edward A. (Karen) Thompson and Nancy Thompson (James) Norton; seven grandchildren, Tamela Thompson Burkman, Tracy Thompson Johns, Timothy E. and T. Anthony Thompson, and Richard K., David T. and Amy J. Norton; and by 10 great-grandchildren, Abagail and Jacob Norton, James and Katie Dellinger, and Clair, Mary, Elizabeth, Timothy, Tyler and Trevor Thompson.