Services: 1:00 p.m. Friday, December 14, 2007 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fort Dodge.
Visitation: 4:00 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Gunderson Funeral Home and Cremation Services in Fort Dodge.
She was born April 7, 1920 on a farm near Dayton, Iowa. She attended and graduated from the public school in Burnside, Iowa.
She is survived by her daughter, Joyce Olson and her husband Jerry Olson of Fort Dodge and Janet Sides of Sonoma, California; grandchildren, great grandchildren, and one sister, Donna (Keith) Fawcett of Lake Alfred, Florida. She was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years, Jordan Thompson (1991); two sons, Richard and Douglas; her parents, John and Lydia (Covey) Carr; three brothers, Gerald, Kenneth and Calvin; and four sisters, Velma Anderson, Llelven Norrell, Helen Jordison and Norma Blanchfield.
On June 7, 1938 France Irene Carr married Jordan Thompson in the Badger Lutheran Church in Badger, Iowa. To this union were born four children, (two boys and two girls), Richard Thompson (deceased), Douglas (Luther) Thompson (deceased), Joyce Olson and Janet Sides.
Frances worked outside of the home most of her life. She worked for Armstrong Plumbing, Fort Dodge Messenger, Trinity Hospital and then after 1982 she helped her Daughter, Joyce, in her business – Kinda-Nice Gifts and Antiques in Badger, Iowa. She was a beautiful seamstress and made clothes for the porcelain dolls that were made at Kinda-Nice. She also was a very accomplished china painter. Her life was centered around her family, her church, her friends and her many hobbies. In the 25 plus years that she came to Kinda-Nice on a daily basis, she never failed to bring along a Bible verse for the day. She also was an accomplished poet. Writing many poems and giving them to those she loved. She will be dearly missed by all whose path she crossed.
Location: Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. (Is this the correct cemetery where she is laid to rest?)
Visitation: 4:00 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Gunderson Funeral Home and Cremation Services in Fort Dodge.
She was born April 7, 1920 on a farm near Dayton, Iowa. She attended and graduated from the public school in Burnside, Iowa.
She is survived by her daughter, Joyce Olson and her husband Jerry Olson of Fort Dodge and Janet Sides of Sonoma, California; grandchildren, great grandchildren, and one sister, Donna (Keith) Fawcett of Lake Alfred, Florida. She was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years, Jordan Thompson (1991); two sons, Richard and Douglas; her parents, John and Lydia (Covey) Carr; three brothers, Gerald, Kenneth and Calvin; and four sisters, Velma Anderson, Llelven Norrell, Helen Jordison and Norma Blanchfield.
On June 7, 1938 France Irene Carr married Jordan Thompson in the Badger Lutheran Church in Badger, Iowa. To this union were born four children, (two boys and two girls), Richard Thompson (deceased), Douglas (Luther) Thompson (deceased), Joyce Olson and Janet Sides.
Frances worked outside of the home most of her life. She worked for Armstrong Plumbing, Fort Dodge Messenger, Trinity Hospital and then after 1982 she helped her Daughter, Joyce, in her business – Kinda-Nice Gifts and Antiques in Badger, Iowa. She was a beautiful seamstress and made clothes for the porcelain dolls that were made at Kinda-Nice. She also was a very accomplished china painter. Her life was centered around her family, her church, her friends and her many hobbies. In the 25 plus years that she came to Kinda-Nice on a daily basis, she never failed to bring along a Bible verse for the day. She also was an accomplished poet. Writing many poems and giving them to those she loved. She will be dearly missed by all whose path she crossed.
Location: Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. (Is this the correct cemetery where she is laid to rest?)
Services: 1:00 p.m. Friday, December 14, 2007 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fort Dodge.
Visitation: 4:00 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Gunderson Funeral Home and Cremation Services in Fort Dodge.
She was born April 7, 1920 on a farm near Dayton, Iowa. She attended and graduated from the public school in Burnside, Iowa.
She is survived by her daughter, Joyce Olson and her husband Jerry Olson of Fort Dodge and Janet Sides of Sonoma, California; grandchildren, great grandchildren, and one sister, Donna (Keith) Fawcett of Lake Alfred, Florida. She was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years, Jordan Thompson (1991); two sons, Richard and Douglas; her parents, John and Lydia (Covey) Carr; three brothers, Gerald, Kenneth and Calvin; and four sisters, Velma Anderson, Llelven Norrell, Helen Jordison and Norma Blanchfield.
On June 7, 1938 France Irene Carr married Jordan Thompson in the Badger Lutheran Church in Badger, Iowa. To this union were born four children, (two boys and two girls), Richard Thompson (deceased), Douglas (Luther) Thompson (deceased), Joyce Olson and Janet Sides.
Frances worked outside of the home most of her life. She worked for Armstrong Plumbing, Fort Dodge Messenger, Trinity Hospital and then after 1982 she helped her Daughter, Joyce, in her business – Kinda-Nice Gifts and Antiques in Badger, Iowa. She was a beautiful seamstress and made clothes for the porcelain dolls that were made at Kinda-Nice. She also was a very accomplished china painter. Her life was centered around her family, her church, her friends and her many hobbies. In the 25 plus years that she came to Kinda-Nice on a daily basis, she never failed to bring along a Bible verse for the day. She also was an accomplished poet. Writing many poems and giving them to those she loved. She will be dearly missed by all whose path she crossed.
Location: Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. (Is this the correct cemetery where she is laid to rest?)
Visitation: 4:00 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Gunderson Funeral Home and Cremation Services in Fort Dodge.
She was born April 7, 1920 on a farm near Dayton, Iowa. She attended and graduated from the public school in Burnside, Iowa.
She is survived by her daughter, Joyce Olson and her husband Jerry Olson of Fort Dodge and Janet Sides of Sonoma, California; grandchildren, great grandchildren, and one sister, Donna (Keith) Fawcett of Lake Alfred, Florida. She was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years, Jordan Thompson (1991); two sons, Richard and Douglas; her parents, John and Lydia (Covey) Carr; three brothers, Gerald, Kenneth and Calvin; and four sisters, Velma Anderson, Llelven Norrell, Helen Jordison and Norma Blanchfield.
On June 7, 1938 France Irene Carr married Jordan Thompson in the Badger Lutheran Church in Badger, Iowa. To this union were born four children, (two boys and two girls), Richard Thompson (deceased), Douglas (Luther) Thompson (deceased), Joyce Olson and Janet Sides.
Frances worked outside of the home most of her life. She worked for Armstrong Plumbing, Fort Dodge Messenger, Trinity Hospital and then after 1982 she helped her Daughter, Joyce, in her business – Kinda-Nice Gifts and Antiques in Badger, Iowa. She was a beautiful seamstress and made clothes for the porcelain dolls that were made at Kinda-Nice. She also was a very accomplished china painter. Her life was centered around her family, her church, her friends and her many hobbies. In the 25 plus years that she came to Kinda-Nice on a daily basis, she never failed to bring along a Bible verse for the day. She also was an accomplished poet. Writing many poems and giving them to those she loved. She will be dearly missed by all whose path she crossed.
Location: Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. (Is this the correct cemetery where she is laid to rest?)
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