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- 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.
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1879 - Yes, date unknown
(Age 87 years)