The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., October 14, 1965, page 1

SERVICES HELD OCT. 2ND AT PRINEVILLE, ORE.

     William Authur Thompson was born September 22 1900 at Fossil, Oregon to Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Thompson and passed away September 27, 1965, at Prineville Memorial Hospital, Prineville, Oregon.
     When he was nine years old he moved with his family to Lyle, Washington where he lived until July 1937. He graduated from White Salmon High School in 1919 and is remembered by many people in this community.
     He was married to Bessie Tuthill of Lyle on September 30, 1933. In 1937 they moved to Pomeroy, Washington, where he lived until April of 1948 when they moved to Prineville, Oregon.
     He resided in Prineville until his death.
     He was a lumber grader for Consolidated Pine Lumber Company has since 1948.
     Besides his wife Mrs. Bessie Ruth Thompson he is survived by three sons, Arthur Virgil of Corvallis, Oregon; Sidney Russell of Denver, Colorado, David Terrance of Madras, Oregon; one daughter, Mrs. Susan Ruth Charles of Seattle, Washington and three grandsons.
     Also his mother Mrs. Lulu Thompson of White Salmon and two sisters, Mrs. Noma Miller of White Salmon and Mrs. Erma Taylor of Dupont, Washington, and many other close relatives and friends.
     Funeral services were conducted October 2 at the Prineville Funeral Home followed by graveside services and interment at the White Salmon Goodwill Cemetery.

The Central Oregonian, Prineville, OR., September 30, 1965, page 2

FUNERAL RITES SATURDAY FOR WM. A. THOMPSON

     Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 10 at at the Prineville Funeral Home for William Arthur Thompson, 65, Prineville resident for the past 17 years who died at Pioneer Memorial Hospital yesterday (Wednesday). The Rev. Eugene Slape of the First Assembly of God Church will officiate with burial at White Salmon, Wash., Saturday afternoon at 3:30.
     Mr. Thompson was born Sept. 22, 1900 in Fossil and came to Prineville in 1948 from White Salmon. He had been a lumber tallyman with Consolidated Pine for the past 17 years.
     He was married to Bessie R. Thompson Sept. 30, 1933, in White Salmon. She survives.
     Other survivors inlcude his mother, Mrs. Eliza Thompson of White Salmon; three sons, Arthur Virgil of Prineville, Sidney Russel of Denver, Color., and Terry of Madras; a daughter, Mrs. Susan Ruth Charles of Seattle; two sisters, Mrs. Noma Miller of White Salmon and Mrs. Erma Taylor of Dupont, Wash.; and two grandsons.

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