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Maggie

Female 1879 - Yes, date unknown


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Maggie was born on 13 May 1879; and died.

    Notes:

    North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 5/13/1959

    Last night, four generations
    of the George M.
    Thompson family gathered
    at the F i r s t Methodist
    Church Mother - Daughter
    banquet to pay tribute to
    Mrs Thompson on her
    80th birthday.
    Better known to the community
    and her fellow church members
    as "Aunt Maggie Thompson" the
    guest of honor was surrounded bymany
    friends and relatives as she
    cut the birthday cake presented in
    her honor.
    Mrs. Thompson said this occasion
    will be one more memory to
    add to the many which have made
    her life "so full and interesting.'
    The late George Thompson and
    his family, including at that time,
    a son, Biard and two daughters.
    Myrtle and Marguerite, came to
    North Tonawanda from Bay Mills.
    Mich., in 1904. Mrs. Thompson
    now makes her home with Marguerite
    in Sweeney St.
    Later the Thompsons had two
    more daughters, Fern, now Mrs.
    Louis Anastasi and Hazel, now
    Mrs. H. M. Wood. Mrs. Thompson
    has nine grandchildren, two great
    grandchildren, also two brothers
    and two sisters.
    "Aunt Maggie" remembers sitting
    on the Erie Canal watching
    the mules tread along the old towpath
    as they pulled the h e a v y
    laden barges through the water.
    She has seen the community
    grow from a few thousand people
    to the community of nearly 50
    thousand and has watched w i th
    interest the changes in the livelihoods
    of its inhabitants and their
    ever progressing interests.
    Aunt Maggie recalls the many
    happy hours spent with her h u s band,
    who was noted for his
    friendliness, wit and humor.
    The late Mr. Thompson and his
    father, Oron B. Thompson, established
    the "Thompson Ice
    Cream Co." and the little p l a n t
    was located at the foot of Goundry
    St., near Manhattan. Many Tonawandans
    will recall the "horse
    and wagon" deliveries of t h e
    home-made ice cream.
    Later Mr. Thompson was proprietor
    of a grocery store and
    meat market where Mrs. Thomp-
    son recalls spending many pleas-
    ant hours. Still later he operated
    an insurance business now owned
    by a friend of the family, Clark
    V. Stafford.
    She recalls with pride the musical
    ability of her daughter, Myrtle,
    who was a talented pianist.
    She became the wife of L. Bolling
    Weller and her death, as well as
    that of their son Biard's at early
    ages, were sorrows in the lives
    of the Thompsons.
    Out of town guests at the ban-
    quet were Mrs. George N. Smith,
    Mrs. Thompson's sister; Mrs.
    Lorne Warner, and Mrs. Barney
    Warner, sisters-in-law, all from
    Michigan; and Mrs. Wood of
    Springfield, Va.
    Other guests present for the oc-
    casion were Mrs. Harry Warner
    and daughter, Virginia, niece and
    grandniece, Mrs. Anastasi, her
    daughter. Mrs. Sterling Nowka
    and the latter's daughter, Mary
    Lou, who complete the four gen-
    erations, Miss Marguerite Thomp-
    son and little Wende Sue Anas-
    tasi, a grandchild of Mrs. Thomp-
    son's.

    Family/Spouse: THOMPSON, George M. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. THOMPSON, Fern was born on 16 Mar 1916; died on 5 Mar 2004 in North Tonawanda, Niagara County, NY.
    2. THOMPSON, Biard
    3. THOMPSON, Myrtle
    4. THOMPSON, Marguerite
    5. THOMPSON, Hazel

Generation: 2



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