GILBERT C. THOMPSON

Gilbert Thompson Of Vermont Dies

Gilbert C. Thompson, 69, of Vermont, died at 6 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1990, at Methodist Medical Center in Peoria.

He was born Sept. 17, 1920, in Canton, Mo., a son of John and Mabyn Gilbert Thompson. He married Barbara Heaton on Feb. 1, 1947, in Quincy. She survives.

Also surviving are two sons, David and Dan, both of Macomb; one daughter, Terry Thompson-Honig of West Los Angeles, Calif.; and one brother, Robert Thompson of the Philippines.

He lived his early childhood in the Canton, Mo. and Quincy areas. He worked at the McDonough County Rural Electric Co-op and McGraw-Edison. He was a deputy sheriff for Fulton County for 12 years, retiring June 1987. He served in the Army in the European Theater during World War II.

Funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Clugston-Tibbitts Funeral Home in Macomb with Rev. Bruce Peterson officiating. Burial was in Oakwood Cemetery in Macomb.

Memorials may be made to the McDonough County Humane Society.

Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 1/31/1990