KERNERSVILLE - Grace Anderson Thompson, 85, formerly of Burlington, died Sunday, Dec. 31, 2006, following several months of declining health. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 6, at Parkway United Church of Christ in Winston-Salem and at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13, at First Reformed United Church of Christ in Burlington. The family will receive friends after the service. A native of Alamance County, Mrs. Thompson was the daughter of Fanny Clapp Anderson and William Lloyd Anderson, both deceased. She was a member of First Reformed United Church of Christ and the Fesperman Class for many years. More recently she enjoyed fellowship with Parkway United Church of Christ families. Mrs. Thompson served the Battle of Alamance DAR as registrar. Her inspiration and work was an essential part of the development of the Clapp's Mill Memorial at Lake Macintosh and the restoration and refurbishing of Old Brick Church. She was a charter member of a couples club and the Clapp Family Association. She served numerous terms as president of the Alamance County Genealogical Society, sat on the Alamance County Historical Museum board and recently established a library in her home on Clapp family land. A quintessential researcher, Mrs. Thompson's genealogical materials appeared in Clapp Family newsletters, the Guilford and Alamance County genealogical journals, an Albright/Clapp researcher's book and dedications marking Revolutionary War gravesites. She has been cited on the Internet and across state lines yet insisted she was "a kitchen worker and a back row sitter." Her husband, A.G. Thompson Jr., preceded her in death. Mrs. Thompson is survived by sisters, Janet Schiffelbian of Center Moriches, Long Island, N.Y., Frances Johnson and husband E.J. of Greensboro, Carolyn Patterson and husband Tyson of Burlington; children Suzanne Turner of Durham, Donna Bonds and husband John of Kernersville, David Thompson and wife Mary of Burlington; grandchildren Caroline Bonds of Bryson City, Jared Bonds of Kernersville, Mark Thompson and wife Ann of Italy, Wyatt Thompson and wife Bess of Greenwood, S.C., Andrew Turner and wife Ashlee of Bassett, Va., and David Turner of Newport News, Va.; great-grandgirls, Payton, Casandra and Sarah Bonds of Kernersville and Kati Maya Thompson of Italy. Memorials may be made to First Reformed UCC on Front Street in Burlington or Parkway UCC on Silas Creek Parkway in Winston-Salem.

Obituary courtesy of Winston-Salem Journal (NC) - Wednesday, January 3, 2007