Funeral services were held in the First United Methodist Church here for Otho D. Thompson, Dickens. Rev. Archie Echols, church pastor officiated.

Mr. Thompson was a gin operator. He was 78. He died November 18 in Lubbock Hospitality Nursing Home. He had been a resident of Dickens County since 1925. He was a member of the Dickens Methodist Church.

Survivors include one son, Otho D. Thompson, San Francisco, CA; four brothers, Bowman Thompson, Jasper, CA; Carl Thompson, Sunland, CA; Willard Thompson, Morrow Bay, CA; Oscar Thompson, Bakersfield, CA; two sisters, Mrs. Edieth Fox, Merkel and Mrs. Opal Lane, Mountain Air, NM.

Burial was in the Spur Cemetery.

The Texas Spur, November 25, 1976

From the records of Lillian Grace Nay

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