THOMPSON, Clyde

The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ July 17, 1959, p. 5 Clyde Thompson Funeral Tuesday Funeral services for Clyde Thompson, Wickenburg resident since September, 1958, were held at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning in the Fort Whipple Chapel at Prescott with burial following in the Fort Whipple National Cemetery. It was a military funeral with Dr. Charles S. Poling, pastor of the Presbyterian Church here, assisting. Mr. Thompson, a retired linotype operator and printer who resided in the Desert Cypress Trailer Ranch, died at 9 a.m. last Saturday in the Fort Whipple Veterans Hospital after a short illness. Born in Hyde Park, Vt., March 16, 1896, Mr Thompson was in the printing trade for 42 years. He retired September 24, 1958, after working in Denver, Colo., for 15 years, and moved to Wickenburg. Mr Thompson was a veteran of World War I, having served in Engineers Corps. He was married in 1919 in Marthon, Ia., in the home of his wife, Florence, who survives. Other survivors are two sons, Robert of Denver and Keating of Wilton, Conn.; one daughter, Mrs Betty Bast of Brawley, Calif., three brothers, Ralph and Guy of Hyde Park, Vt.; and Glenn of Johnson, Vt.; one sister, Mrs Ethel Bowen of Hyde Park; and seven grandchildren.