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Chester Thompson

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Chester Thompson

Birth
Texas, USA
Death
28 Jun 2008 (aged 90)
Jacksonville, Cherokee County, Texas, USA
Burial
Jacksonville, Cherokee County, Texas, USA GPS-Latitude: 31.9555708, Longitude: -95.3089162
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JACKSONVILLE - Services for Chester Thompson Sr., 90, Jacksonville, are scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at Greater New Zion Baptist Church with Dr. Charles Walls officiating.

Burial will be in Ragsdale Cemetery under direction of Community Funeral Home, Jacksonville.

Mr. Thompson died June 28, 2008, in a Jacksonville hospital.

He was born April 9, 1918, in Mount Haven community near Jacksonville, where he grew up and attended school. He was a lifelong resident of the area and a bricklayer and house mover. He was a member of Greater New Zion Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Darsilmer Guinn Thompson; sons, Homerzell Thompson and Dexter Thompson, both of Grandview, Mo., and Chester Thompson Jr., Lee's Summit, Mo.; daughter, LaMyrle Itah, Houston; brother, Anthony Thompson, Pine Grove; sister, Pearlie Mosley, Inglewood, Calif.; six grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

Viewing will be 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday at the funeral home and 10 a.m.-service time Saturday at the church.
Published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph on 7/3/2008.
JACKSONVILLE - Services for Chester Thompson Sr., 90, Jacksonville, are scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at Greater New Zion Baptist Church with Dr. Charles Walls officiating.

Burial will be in Ragsdale Cemetery under direction of Community Funeral Home, Jacksonville.

Mr. Thompson died June 28, 2008, in a Jacksonville hospital.

He was born April 9, 1918, in Mount Haven community near Jacksonville, where he grew up and attended school. He was a lifelong resident of the area and a bricklayer and house mover. He was a member of Greater New Zion Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Darsilmer Guinn Thompson; sons, Homerzell Thompson and Dexter Thompson, both of Grandview, Mo., and Chester Thompson Jr., Lee's Summit, Mo.; daughter, LaMyrle Itah, Houston; brother, Anthony Thompson, Pine Grove; sister, Pearlie Mosley, Inglewood, Calif.; six grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

Viewing will be 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday at the funeral home and 10 a.m.-service time Saturday at the church.
Published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph on 7/3/2008.


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