Funeral services were Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 1 p.m. from the Upper Beaver Creek Lutheran Church and burial was in the church cemetery, both in Northfield, Wis. Pastor Elden Simonson officiated.

Mr. Thompson died Monday, June 16, 2003, at Trinity Medical Center, Rock Island. He was born Aug. 8, 1930, in Tennessee, son of Tommy and Media Thompson. He married Minnie Bell in 1951 in Gates, Tenn.