Funeral services for Mrs. Elsie Shipley Thompson, 42, of Vidor, Tex. were held at 2 p.m. Friday at United Pentecostal church. The Rev. J. A. Hawthorne officiated, assisted by the Rev. T. J. Mahoney.
Burial was in Ogden Cemetery.
Mrs. Thompson, a native of Winnsboro where she was born April 17, 1920, was a member of the Pentecostal church. She died at 10:30 a.m. April 3, at Doctors hospital, Grove, Tex.
Surviving her are: her husband, Robert Thompson, Beaumont, Tex.; a son, Jessie Houston Burton [sic Barton], Vidor, Tex.; a daughter, Mrs. Charles Brandon, Houston, Tex.; her mother, Mrs. Oscar Shipley, Winnsboro; three sisters, Mrs. D. W. Pippins, Brookhaven, Miss.; Mrs. Gordon Hilburn, Winnsboro, and Mrs. Merle Howard, Monroe; two brothers, C. L. and J. R. Shipley, both of Winnsboro; and two grandsons.
Pallbearers were Charlie Carroll, W. M. Keyes, Hilton Davis, Sal Coronado, J. R. Kiper, Jr., and Jimmie Korman.
Published in The Franklin Sun (Winnsboro, LA), Thursday, April 11, 1963
Burial was in Ogden Cemetery.
Mrs. Thompson, a native of Winnsboro where she was born April 17, 1920, was a member of the Pentecostal church. She died at 10:30 a.m. April 3, at Doctors hospital, Grove, Tex.
Surviving her are: her husband, Robert Thompson, Beaumont, Tex.; a son, Jessie Houston Burton [sic Barton], Vidor, Tex.; a daughter, Mrs. Charles Brandon, Houston, Tex.; her mother, Mrs. Oscar Shipley, Winnsboro; three sisters, Mrs. D. W. Pippins, Brookhaven, Miss.; Mrs. Gordon Hilburn, Winnsboro, and Mrs. Merle Howard, Monroe; two brothers, C. L. and J. R. Shipley, both of Winnsboro; and two grandsons.
Pallbearers were Charlie Carroll, W. M. Keyes, Hilton Davis, Sal Coronado, J. R. Kiper, Jr., and Jimmie Korman.
Published in The Franklin Sun (Winnsboro, LA), Thursday, April 11, 1963
Funeral services for Mrs. Elsie Shipley Thompson, 42, of Vidor, Tex. were held at 2 p.m. Friday at United Pentecostal church. The Rev. J. A. Hawthorne officiated, assisted by the Rev. T. J. Mahoney.
Burial was in Ogden Cemetery.
Mrs. Thompson, a native of Winnsboro where she was born April 17, 1920, was a member of the Pentecostal church. She died at 10:30 a.m. April 3, at Doctors hospital, Grove, Tex.
Surviving her are: her husband, Robert Thompson, Beaumont, Tex.; a son, Jessie Houston Burton [sic Barton], Vidor, Tex.; a daughter, Mrs. Charles Brandon, Houston, Tex.; her mother, Mrs. Oscar Shipley, Winnsboro; three sisters, Mrs. D. W. Pippins, Brookhaven, Miss.; Mrs. Gordon Hilburn, Winnsboro, and Mrs. Merle Howard, Monroe; two brothers, C. L. and J. R. Shipley, both of Winnsboro; and two grandsons.
Pallbearers were Charlie Carroll, W. M. Keyes, Hilton Davis, Sal Coronado, J. R. Kiper, Jr., and Jimmie Korman.
Published in The Franklin Sun (Winnsboro, LA), Thursday, April 11, 1963
Burial was in Ogden Cemetery.
Mrs. Thompson, a native of Winnsboro where she was born April 17, 1920, was a member of the Pentecostal church. She died at 10:30 a.m. April 3, at Doctors hospital, Grove, Tex.
Surviving her are: her husband, Robert Thompson, Beaumont, Tex.; a son, Jessie Houston Burton [sic Barton], Vidor, Tex.; a daughter, Mrs. Charles Brandon, Houston, Tex.; her mother, Mrs. Oscar Shipley, Winnsboro; three sisters, Mrs. D. W. Pippins, Brookhaven, Miss.; Mrs. Gordon Hilburn, Winnsboro, and Mrs. Merle Howard, Monroe; two brothers, C. L. and J. R. Shipley, both of Winnsboro; and two grandsons.
Pallbearers were Charlie Carroll, W. M. Keyes, Hilton Davis, Sal Coronado, J. R. Kiper, Jr., and Jimmie Korman.
Published in The Franklin Sun (Winnsboro, LA), Thursday, April 11, 1963
Gravesite Details
Elsie's obituary and TX death certificate give her birth year as 1920. Her grave marker as 1922. Her reported age of 9 years in the 1930 census suggests that she was born in 1921.
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