This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: THOMPSON, SWANSON, WAKEFIELD, SNYDER, MANGINE, BUCKLAND, COLBURN Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/11885 Message Board Post: PJ Obit 9/2/2001 Jay F. Thompson, 72, of Bowers Road, died Sunday (Sept. 2, 2001) in his home after a brief illness. He was born June 6, 1929, in Jamestown, a son of the late Jay F. and Jennie Wakefield Thompson. A Chautauqua County resident most of his life, he attended Cassadaga Valley Central School. He was employed as a milk hauler, self-employed as a logger and was a construction worker with Local Union 17. He retired from Benchley Rental in 1991. He had also worked as a CARTS driver. Surviving are five daughters: Teena Swanson, Nancy Snyder, Vickie Mangine, Debbie Buckland, all of Cassadaga, and Margaret Colburn of Geneva, Ill.; nine grandchildren: nine great-grandchildren; two sisters: Gertrude Pickard of Heritage Village in Gerry and Thelma Christiansen of Jamestown. Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 27 years, Rita E. Thompson, whom he married July 22, 1967, and who died Jan. 24, 1995; a grandson, Jaret Colburn; and a brother, Wakefield Thompson. The funera! l service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Jordan Funeral Home, Sinclairville. Burial will be in Red Bird Cemetery.