This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thompson, Mennes, Peterson, Stene, Fossum, Rundquist, Loomis, Bruns, Klinker Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3FC.2ACI/3813 Message Board Post: Georgia Mae Thompson, 84 Friday, November 19, 2004 Georgia Mae Thompson, 84, of Seattle, Wash., and a former resident of Hudson, died in Seattle, Monday, Nov. 8. She was born in Baldwin, July 12, 1920, the daughter of George B. and Minnie O. (Peterson) Mennes, and came to Hudson with her family in the 1927 when her father became sheriff of St. Croix County. In 1938 she graduated from Hudson High School and during World War II she worked at Northern Pump in Minneapolis. On Jan.3l, 1942, in Washington, D.C., she was married to Donovan Jerome Thompson, then serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was the son of the Rev. Oscar C. and Matilda (Stene) Thompson. The Rev. Thompson was pastor of Bethel Lutheran Church in Hudson from 1923-1948. After World War II, she and her husband lived in Pennsylvania for a number of years where he taught at the University of Pittsburgh until 1966 when they moved to Seattle. In Seattle he was the dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Washington and the longtime chair in the Department of Biostatistics. In the early 1980s they spent a year in Hiroshima, Japan, where he was director of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation. In her later years in Seattle, she and some of her friends from the Sand Point Country Club worked in the buyback departments at the university bookstore. Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Dr. Donovan Thompson, in 1991; and a sister, Ruby M. (Kyle) Fossum, of Atlanta in 1997. Survivors are her two daughters, Tove Thompson, who is married to Rolf Rundquist of Seattle; and Michel (Burdett) Loomis of Lawrence, Kansas; two grandsons, Casey Rundquist and Dakota Loomis; a sister, Marjorie (Edward) Bruns of Middleton; and a sister-in-law, Mary Ann (George D.) Klinker of Edgar. A private memorial service will be at a later date. Memorials are suggested to Providence Hospice or her favorite charity, the Donovan J. Thompson Scholarship Fund of the University of Washington, Department of Biostatistics. © 2004 Hudson Star-Observer - Reposted by permission http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=12257&SectionID=3&SubSectionID=54&S=21