Thompson, Clara Johanna 1882 - 1903
THOMPSON
Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 9/15/2018 at 12:24:08
Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Nov. 20, 1903, FP, C2
Miss Clara Thompson died yesterday morning about 8 o’clock after a long illness of typhoid fever. As we got to press the time of the funeral had not been decided upon.
Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Nov. 24, 1903, LP, C4
OBITUARY.
THOMPSON.
Clara Johanna Thompson, a daughter of Ralph and Mary Thompson, was born in Cresco, Iowa, June 16, 1882. She was baptized in the Norwegian Lutheran church Aug. 13th, the same year. At the usual age she entered the public school and was graduated from the high school in 1899. Later she attended the Norwegian Lutheran Ladies’ Seminary at Red Wing, Minn. Wishing to fit herself for the duties of a teacher, she attended the State normal at Cedar Falls, Iowa, from which she graduated in 1903. She was teaching in Mason City, Iowa, when she was taken sick with typhoid fever, from which she never recovered. After hovering between life and death for several weeks, she was finally released from her suffering on Thursday morning, Nov. 19, 1903.
Clara was always a constant christian, as far as human eye could judge, and a faithful member of the Lutheran church. She received the usual instruction in Christian doctrine in that church and was confirmed there June 20, 1897.
Funernal{sic} services were conducted in the Norwegian Lutheran church Sunday afternoon Nov. 22nd, by Rev. Otterson. She was buried in Oak Lawn cemetery.
The great concourse of people and the numerous floral emblems bore witness to the esteem in which deceased was held, probably a like number of flowers had never before been seen at any funeral in Cresco.
While these expressions of sympathy were a great comfort to the bereaved family, we trust that the Heavenly Father, who hath given and also taken away, will truly comfort them with the promises of His word and grant them at last a blessed reunion in heaven.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to return our sincere thanks to the many kind friends who assisted us during the sickness and after the death of our daughter and sister, and especially to the High School Class of ‘99.
RALPH THOMPSON and FAMILY.
Oak Lawn Cemetery
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