Mary Ora Thompson

SERVICES: Graveside services will be at 10:00 AM Saturday, September 26, 2009, at Memory Gardens Cemetery, with Rev. Darrell Burton, chaplain with the Hospice of the Southwest, officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors. BIOGRAPHY: Mrs. Thompson was born March 1, 1915 at Pampa, to W. N. and Minnie Ora Johnson. She graduated high school and joined the WACS. She left the WACS when the organization was taken in by the National Armed Forces. At age 36, she married her sweetheart, Frederick Louis Thompson, Jr., on September 12, 1952 in Beaver County, Oklahoma. They made their home in Cheyenne, Wyoming where they made a lifelong friendship with their next door neighbors, Ray and Katherine Schwarting. The Schwarting's had one daughter, Connie, whom Mrs. Thompson loved like her own daughter. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Cheyenne, and the Oakleaf #6 Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star of Wyoming. She returned to Pampa in 1972 upon her retirement from the Wyoming National Guard, where she served 15 years and was presented a certificate of appreciation. She was preceded in death by her husband: Fred L. Thompson on November 21, 1962, after 10 years of marriage; her parents: W. N. and Minnie Ora Johnson; 2 brothers: Floyd N. Johnson and Billy Joe Johnson; and 2 sisters: Verlie Mae Johnson and Etta Faye Isbell. SURVIVORS: 1 brother: Raymond Carl Johnson of Hobbs, New Mexico; special nephews: Johnny Jay Isbell, Jerry Joe Isbell and wife Frances, and Jody Johnson and wife Vicki, all of Pampa, who were Mrs. Thompson's caregivers. Other nieces and nephews include: Ricky Johnson of Odessa, Randy Johnson of Roswell, New Mexico, Myra Charlene Holder of Guymon, Oklahoma, Brenda Frazier of Amarillo, and Jimmy Johnson of Pampa; 10 great-nieces and nephews and 12 great-great-nieces and nephews.MEMORIALS: to a favorite charity