Updated:
16 Mar 2013
Created:
16 Mar 2013
Oklahoman Archives
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
June 17, 1948, pg 11
IRA VIRGIL THOMPSON
Services are tentatively set for 2 p. m. Sunday in Hunter funeral home tor
Ira Virgil "Jiggs" Thompson, 28, World war II veteran. who was killed by zzll
lightning Tuesday in Lindsay.
Thompson served three years in the army. Following his discharge in 1945 he
went to work with a travelling repair crew tor Magnolia Petroleum Co.
He is survived by his wife and two children. Darrel Dean 7 and Grace Ann, 2
1/2. His wife and the children were with him in Lindsay. They moved from place
to place and lived in a house trailer.
Other survivor-s are three brothers. Robert, Edmond; Floyd. Arcadia. and
George. city: two sisters. Miss Iris Thompson and Mrs. Maudie MacLean.
both of San Francisco.
Interment will be in Kolb Cemetery,
near Spencer.
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