Extracted from The Kansas City Times (Kansas City, MO)
Tuesday, January 19, 1965

THOMPSON FAMILY RITES

Services for Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Thompson and their children, Debbie Thompson, 1, and Arthur L. Thompson, jr., one month, will be held at 1 o'clock Thursday at the Earp chapel.

The Thompson family was killed in a motor car crash Sunday night on the Paseo bridge.

Mr. Thompson, 23, of 3223 Independence avenue, died yesterday at the General hospital. His wife and the children died in the crash. Mr. Thompson was a life-long resident of Kansas City. He worked for the Sutherland Lamber company.

His wife, Mrs. Dollie J. Thompson, 20, was born in Fillmore, La., and lived here two years.

Surviving Mr. Thompson are his father, Evert Thompson, 2900 White; his mother, Mrs. Ruth Parker, Cedar Rapids, Ia.; a brother, Donald Thompson, 2900 White; two sisters, Miss Ruth Ann Parker, Cedar Rapids, and Mrs. Joann Brayton, N. M.

Surviving Mrs. Thompson are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson, Dallas, Tex.; five brothers, Charles Wilson, Loyd Wilson, Bennie Wilson and Robert Wilson, all of Dallas, and Henry Wilson, Shreveport, La., and two sisters Mrs. Celester Lyons, 820 Monroe, and Miss Charlene Wilson, Dallas.

Burial will be in Mount Hope cemetery, Kansas City, Kansas. Friends may call from 7 to 9 o'clock Wednesday night at the chapel.