Dolly Marit Thompson, 92, died Thursday, February 3, 2020 at the Life Care Center of Cheyenne, in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Dolly one of five children was born Thursday, April 21, 1927 in the Salt Creek Oilfields north of Casper, Wyoming the daughter of Andrew Leonard and Harriet Marit “Hattie” (Holden) Taylor. When she was two years old, her parents moved to Basin, Wyoming. She grew up on a farm near Basin and later moved to a farm near the Greybull River between Basin and Otto. When she was in the middle of her senior year her family moved to the Seattle, Washington area and her father worked at the Boeing aircraft plant. She graduated from Renton High School and returned to Wyoming that summer and attended the University of Wyoming. Her parents later moved to Douglas and she moved here and began training at the Converse County Hospital in the laboratory and in the X-ray department. She worked for them for 38 years and the Douglas Clinic for several years.
On May 12, 1947 she was baptized by Reverend Clyde Thompson at the First Baptist Church. Reverend Clyde Thompson later became her husband on November 13, 1947. To this union was born Richard and Cheryl.
Dolly loved being a minister’s wife and especially Clyde’s wife (though he wondered at times how he was chosen for such a task!) She, also, loved working with the patients and worked hard at being the best technologist that she could be. She was awarded Wyoming’s Medical Technologist of the year in 1983.
Dolly, also, loved sports. She began playing racquetball at age 50 and became a good player. At age 64 she rode in the MS bicycle tour from Dubois to Thermopolis, a distance of 150 miles. Later at age 69 she rode in the MS tour at Sheridan. They rode from Buffalo to Clairmont and into Sheridan and the next day from Sheridan to Dayton and back to Sheridan.
The joy of her life though was her family and her church family and all of her friends that she met down thru the years.
She is survived by her children, Cheryl L. (Ken) Peterson of Cheyenne and Richard A. (Shelagh) of Douglas; sister, Rose Taylor, of Douglas; six grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; and three great-great grandchildren.
Dolly was preceded in death by her father, Andrew, on December 29,1980; mother, Hattie, on December 27, 1965; siblings, Eric Taylor on February 10, 1995, Dorothy Hollis on October 19, 2004, and Matthew “Matt” Taylor, on April 2, 2008.
© Gorman Funeral February 16, 2020
Dolly one of five children was born Thursday, April 21, 1927 in the Salt Creek Oilfields north of Casper, Wyoming the daughter of Andrew Leonard and Harriet Marit “Hattie” (Holden) Taylor. When she was two years old, her parents moved to Basin, Wyoming. She grew up on a farm near Basin and later moved to a farm near the Greybull River between Basin and Otto. When she was in the middle of her senior year her family moved to the Seattle, Washington area and her father worked at the Boeing aircraft plant. She graduated from Renton High School and returned to Wyoming that summer and attended the University of Wyoming. Her parents later moved to Douglas and she moved here and began training at the Converse County Hospital in the laboratory and in the X-ray department. She worked for them for 38 years and the Douglas Clinic for several years.
On May 12, 1947 she was baptized by Reverend Clyde Thompson at the First Baptist Church. Reverend Clyde Thompson later became her husband on November 13, 1947. To this union was born Richard and Cheryl.
Dolly loved being a minister’s wife and especially Clyde’s wife (though he wondered at times how he was chosen for such a task!) She, also, loved working with the patients and worked hard at being the best technologist that she could be. She was awarded Wyoming’s Medical Technologist of the year in 1983.
Dolly, also, loved sports. She began playing racquetball at age 50 and became a good player. At age 64 she rode in the MS bicycle tour from Dubois to Thermopolis, a distance of 150 miles. Later at age 69 she rode in the MS tour at Sheridan. They rode from Buffalo to Clairmont and into Sheridan and the next day from Sheridan to Dayton and back to Sheridan.
The joy of her life though was her family and her church family and all of her friends that she met down thru the years.
She is survived by her children, Cheryl L. (Ken) Peterson of Cheyenne and Richard A. (Shelagh) of Douglas; sister, Rose Taylor, of Douglas; six grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; and three great-great grandchildren.
Dolly was preceded in death by her father, Andrew, on December 29,1980; mother, Hattie, on December 27, 1965; siblings, Eric Taylor on February 10, 1995, Dorothy Hollis on October 19, 2004, and Matthew “Matt” Taylor, on April 2, 2008.
© Gorman Funeral February 16, 2020
Dolly Marit Thompson, 92, died Thursday, February 3, 2020 at the Life Care Center of Cheyenne, in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Dolly one of five children was born Thursday, April 21, 1927 in the Salt Creek Oilfields north of Casper, Wyoming the daughter of Andrew Leonard and Harriet Marit “Hattie” (Holden) Taylor. When she was two years old, her parents moved to Basin, Wyoming. She grew up on a farm near Basin and later moved to a farm near the Greybull River between Basin and Otto. When she was in the middle of her senior year her family moved to the Seattle, Washington area and her father worked at the Boeing aircraft plant. She graduated from Renton High School and returned to Wyoming that summer and attended the University of Wyoming. Her parents later moved to Douglas and she moved here and began training at the Converse County Hospital in the laboratory and in the X-ray department. She worked for them for 38 years and the Douglas Clinic for several years.
On May 12, 1947 she was baptized by Reverend Clyde Thompson at the First Baptist Church. Reverend Clyde Thompson later became her husband on November 13, 1947. To this union was born Richard and Cheryl.
Dolly loved being a minister’s wife and especially Clyde’s wife (though he wondered at times how he was chosen for such a task!) She, also, loved working with the patients and worked hard at being the best technologist that she could be. She was awarded Wyoming’s Medical Technologist of the year in 1983.
Dolly, also, loved sports. She began playing racquetball at age 50 and became a good player. At age 64 she rode in the MS bicycle tour from Dubois to Thermopolis, a distance of 150 miles. Later at age 69 she rode in the MS tour at Sheridan. They rode from Buffalo to Clairmont and into Sheridan and the next day from Sheridan to Dayton and back to Sheridan.
The joy of her life though was her family and her church family and all of her friends that she met down thru the years.
She is survived by her children, Cheryl L. (Ken) Peterson of Cheyenne and Richard A. (Shelagh) of Douglas; sister, Rose Taylor, of Douglas; six grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; and three great-great grandchildren.
Dolly was preceded in death by her father, Andrew, on December 29,1980; mother, Hattie, on December 27, 1965; siblings, Eric Taylor on February 10, 1995, Dorothy Hollis on October 19, 2004, and Matthew “Matt” Taylor, on April 2, 2008.
© Gorman Funeral February 16, 2020
Dolly one of five children was born Thursday, April 21, 1927 in the Salt Creek Oilfields north of Casper, Wyoming the daughter of Andrew Leonard and Harriet Marit “Hattie” (Holden) Taylor. When she was two years old, her parents moved to Basin, Wyoming. She grew up on a farm near Basin and later moved to a farm near the Greybull River between Basin and Otto. When she was in the middle of her senior year her family moved to the Seattle, Washington area and her father worked at the Boeing aircraft plant. She graduated from Renton High School and returned to Wyoming that summer and attended the University of Wyoming. Her parents later moved to Douglas and she moved here and began training at the Converse County Hospital in the laboratory and in the X-ray department. She worked for them for 38 years and the Douglas Clinic for several years.
On May 12, 1947 she was baptized by Reverend Clyde Thompson at the First Baptist Church. Reverend Clyde Thompson later became her husband on November 13, 1947. To this union was born Richard and Cheryl.
Dolly loved being a minister’s wife and especially Clyde’s wife (though he wondered at times how he was chosen for such a task!) She, also, loved working with the patients and worked hard at being the best technologist that she could be. She was awarded Wyoming’s Medical Technologist of the year in 1983.
Dolly, also, loved sports. She began playing racquetball at age 50 and became a good player. At age 64 she rode in the MS bicycle tour from Dubois to Thermopolis, a distance of 150 miles. Later at age 69 she rode in the MS tour at Sheridan. They rode from Buffalo to Clairmont and into Sheridan and the next day from Sheridan to Dayton and back to Sheridan.
The joy of her life though was her family and her church family and all of her friends that she met down thru the years.
She is survived by her children, Cheryl L. (Ken) Peterson of Cheyenne and Richard A. (Shelagh) of Douglas; sister, Rose Taylor, of Douglas; six grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; and three great-great grandchildren.
Dolly was preceded in death by her father, Andrew, on December 29,1980; mother, Hattie, on December 27, 1965; siblings, Eric Taylor on February 10, 1995, Dorothy Hollis on October 19, 2004, and Matthew “Matt” Taylor, on April 2, 2008.
© Gorman Funeral February 16, 2020
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