Posted on: Hancock Co. Il Obituaries Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/HancockObits?read=155 Surname: Thompson ------------------------- Obituary Burlington Hawkeye Burlington Iowa July 9, 1981 Services held Saturday for Charles F. Thompson Charles F. Thompson, 85, of LaHarpe, ILL., died at 10.55 p.m. Wednesday, July 8, 1981, at the LaHarpe hospital. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 11, at the Banks & Beals Funeral Home in LaHarpe, with the Rev. Richard Allen officiating. Burial was in Moss Ridge Cemetery at Carthage. A memorial has been established with LaHarpe Hospital. Contributions may be made at the Banks & Beal Funeral Home. Mr. Thompson, son of Alvin and Rosa Flynn Thompson, was born Feb. 4,1896, at Ferris, Ill. He had been a resident of the Carthage, Ferris, Fort Madison, and LaHarpe communities during his lifetime. He had spent the past year at the LaHarpe Extended Care Facility. He was a retired farmer and a member of the Ferris Christian Church. On Nov 1, 1913, at Burlington, IA., he married Jessie Long, who preceded him in death on Jan. 13, 1975. He is survived by two sons,Dale of Lomax, ILL., and Charles W. of Montrose, IA.;a daughter, Mrs. Wendell (Adelaide) Carey of Blandinsville, ILL.; 14 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren. Besides his wife, he was preceded in death by two sons, two daughters, two brothers and a sister.