Representative Stanley M. Thompson View All Years

Memorial to the Honorable Stanley M. Thompson of Guthrie County

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Stanley M. Thompson, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Stanley Mark Thompson, the son of Joseph and Annie Thompson, was born December 30, 1879, in Franklin township, Greene county, Iowa, and passed away May 14, 1948, at Jefferson at the age of sixty-eight years, four months and fourteen days.

He spent his boyhood days, one of a family of six boys and one girl, in Franklin township and was educated in the Franklin county school and at Simpson College.

He was married on February 8, 1911, to Alice Ada Anderson and they became the parents of two daughters, Jean and Margaret, and one son, who died in infancy.

The young couple farmed the home place in Franklin township until the spring of 1913 when they moved to their own farm west of Yale, Guthrie county, where he was a successful stockman and farmer. He retired and moved to Jefferson in 1945.

Mr. Thompson was a director and stockholder of the Farmers State Bank at Yale since 1920. He was a member of the House of Representatives from Guthrie county from 1934 to 1940, during the Forty-sixth, Forty-sixth Extra, Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth General Assemblies.

He was active in the Farm Bureau and the Guthrie County Stock Feeders Association, of which he was a director. He was a member of Meteor Lodge No. 563, A.F. and A.M., at Yale, the Des Moines Consistory 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and Za-Ga-Zig Shrine, of Des Moines.

He is survived by his wife, two daughters, Margaret Elizabeth Thompson, of Jefferson, and Mrs. Robert Abbott, of Annapolis, Maryland; two grandchildren, Jimmy and Judy Abbott; three brothers, James, Oren and Charles Thompson, and one sister, Mrs. Anna Banks, all of Jefferson.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-third General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Stanley M. Thompson, the state has lost a valued and honored citizen and the family a loving husband and father and the House would tender, by this resolution, its sincere sympathy to his beloved family in their sorrow.

Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

HELEN CRABB,

HENRY H. STEVENS,

WILLIAM KRUSE,

Committee.