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Sr Mary Fides Thompson

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Sr Mary Fides Thompson

Birth
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Death
11 Apr 1990 (aged 86)
Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Maple Mount, Daviess County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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Sister Mary Fides Thompson is buried in Row A, in Plot 17.

Sister Mary Fides Thompson, 86, Mount St. Joseph Motherhouse, Maple Mount, Daviess County, died April 11, 1990, at Mercy Hospital, Owensboro, after an illness. Thompson died on the 46th anniversary of the death of her father.

Born Elizabeth Aletha Thompson on July 3, 1903, in Louisville, she was a daughter of the late Joseph Lloyd and Rose Aletha Cecil Thompson. She was brought to Raywick to live at the age of nine months. There she attended elementary school and graduated from high school.
In September 1925, she entered the Ursuline Sisters of Mount St. Joseph and made her final vows on March 19, 1931.
In her 65 years of religious life, she spent nearly 50 years teaching in public and parochial elementary junior high and high schools in Nebraska and Kentucky. In Nebraska, she taught at Nebraska City and Snyder. In Kentucky, she had missions at St. Joseph in Daviess County, Fredericktown, St. Francis, New Haven, Paducah, Buechel, Howardstown, Lyndon, Mayfield, Knottsville, Clementsville and St. Mary.

Sister Mary Fides retired from teaching in 1973 and served as a substitute teacher at Howardstown from 1973 to 1981. She spent 1981-1984 at Okolona and Buechel in semi-retirement. She retired to Lourdes III at Maple Mount in 1984 and lived there until her death. She was preceded in death by a sister, Sister Rose Marie, O.S.U.
Survivors include: one sister, Aloise Boone of Howardstown, Helen C. Thompson of Lexington; one sister-in-law, Sue H. Thompson Smith, Lebanon; and many neices, nephews, grand-neices and grand-nephews, and great-grand-neices and great- grand-nephews.
Funeral services were conducted by Father Powers, chaplain, at 11 a.m., April 12, 1990, at Mt. St. Joseph. Interment was in the Motherhouse Cemetery.
Serving as pallbearers were the following neices and nephews, Arthur Mae C.[Thompson], Bill, Bert and Margaret Thompson, Louise T. Perkins and Ruth Boone.
Glenn Funeral Home, Owensboro, was in charge of the arrangements.

Published in THE LEBANON ENTERPRISE, A-13, Wednesday, April 18, 1990.



Sister Mary Fides Thompson is buried in Row A, in Plot 17.

Sister Mary Fides Thompson, 86, Mount St. Joseph Motherhouse, Maple Mount, Daviess County, died April 11, 1990, at Mercy Hospital, Owensboro, after an illness. Thompson died on the 46th anniversary of the death of her father.

Born Elizabeth Aletha Thompson on July 3, 1903, in Louisville, she was a daughter of the late Joseph Lloyd and Rose Aletha Cecil Thompson. She was brought to Raywick to live at the age of nine months. There she attended elementary school and graduated from high school.
In September 1925, she entered the Ursuline Sisters of Mount St. Joseph and made her final vows on March 19, 1931.
In her 65 years of religious life, she spent nearly 50 years teaching in public and parochial elementary junior high and high schools in Nebraska and Kentucky. In Nebraska, she taught at Nebraska City and Snyder. In Kentucky, she had missions at St. Joseph in Daviess County, Fredericktown, St. Francis, New Haven, Paducah, Buechel, Howardstown, Lyndon, Mayfield, Knottsville, Clementsville and St. Mary.

Sister Mary Fides retired from teaching in 1973 and served as a substitute teacher at Howardstown from 1973 to 1981. She spent 1981-1984 at Okolona and Buechel in semi-retirement. She retired to Lourdes III at Maple Mount in 1984 and lived there until her death. She was preceded in death by a sister, Sister Rose Marie, O.S.U.
Survivors include: one sister, Aloise Boone of Howardstown, Helen C. Thompson of Lexington; one sister-in-law, Sue H. Thompson Smith, Lebanon; and many neices, nephews, grand-neices and grand-nephews, and great-grand-neices and great- grand-nephews.
Funeral services were conducted by Father Powers, chaplain, at 11 a.m., April 12, 1990, at Mt. St. Joseph. Interment was in the Motherhouse Cemetery.
Serving as pallbearers were the following neices and nephews, Arthur Mae C.[Thompson], Bill, Bert and Margaret Thompson, Louise T. Perkins and Ruth Boone.
Glenn Funeral Home, Owensboro, was in charge of the arrangements.

Published in THE LEBANON ENTERPRISE, A-13, Wednesday, April 18, 1990.





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