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Grace Anderson Thompson
KERNERSVILLE — Grace Anderson Thompson, 85, formerly of Burlington, died
following several months of declining health on Sunday, December 31, 2006.
A memorial service will be held at Parkway United Church of Christ in
Winston-Salem on Saturday, January 6, 2007 at 11 a.m. and at First
Reformed United Church of Christ in Burlington on Saturday, January 13,
2007 at 2 p.m. 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 Mackintosh 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, L.I.N.Y., Frances Johnson and husband, E.J., of Greensboro and
Carolyn Patterson and husband, Tyson, of Burlington; children, Susanne
Turner of Durham, Donna Bonds and husband, John, of Kernersville, David
Thompson and wife, Mary, of Burlington; grandchildren, Caroline Bonds of
Bryson City, N.C., 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 Katie Maya Thompson of Italy.
Memorials may be made to First Reformed United Church of Christ, on
Front Street in Burlington or Parkway United Church of Christ on Silas
Creek Parkway in Winston-Salem.
The Cremation Services Inc. of Winston-Salem is in charge of arrangements.