Leola Thompson

Services for Leola Thompson, 83, of Burke, were held Wednesday, March 12, 1997 in the Gipson Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Garden of Memories Memorial Park.

Mrs. Thompson was a homemaker and mother. She attended Burke United Methodist Church, and had been a resident of Burke all her life.

Survivors: daughter, Dorothy Merle Essex; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; brother, Zusle Rush Jr., Allen ``Buddy'' Rush; sisters, Margaret Brown, Catherine Lee, Betty Jo Smith; and a number of nieces, nephews and other relatives.

Mrs. Thompson was preceded in death by her husband, H. D. Thompson, in 1978, and by a daughter, Molly Tully.