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- The Beckley Register-Herald, Beckley, WV, Online Edition, 6 May 2010
SALEM, S.C. ? Kathleen "Kay" Thompson, 89, passed away Sunday, May 2, 2010 in Salem, S.C., following a sudden illness.
Born January 31, 1921 in Fenwick, she was the daughter of the late George Jenkins and Angie Spinks Canfield.
Kay was a member of Big Clear Creek Baptist Church in Rupert. With exception of brief employment at the King Coal Hotel in Rainelle, she spent most of her adult life in Charmco as a wife, mother and homemaker. Kay gardened and canned, hunted and fished. She enjoyed fishing the most and often spent hours in solitude night fishing on the Meadow River near her home.
Kay moved to Lewisburg, where she lived for 10 years before going to Salem, S.C. to live with her daughter Ruby Sheets in 2009.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 59 years, Fred Allen Thompson; a daughter, Gladys Marie Pitsenbarger; a son, William David Thompson; two granddaughters, Dottie Taylor and Tammy Whery; a sister, Ruth Hicks; and brothers, Guy, Carl, Earl, Virgil and Claude Canfield.
Survivors include two daughters, Ruby Sheets and husband Roger, Salem, S.C., and Joyce Daily of Clayton, N.C.; three sons, Charles Allen Thompson and wife, Eileen of Fairfax, Va., Floyd "Bud" Thompson of Charmco and Frederick Floyd Thompson and wife, Gabby Herndon, Va.; 17 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 8, 2010 at Big Clear Creek Baptist Church, Rupert with the Rev. Hat Defibaugh officiating. Burial will follow at the Wallace Memorial Cemetery in Clintonville.
Friends may call one hour prior to the service. There will be no evening visitation.
Pallbearers will be Jamie Schlachter, Stephen Schlachter, Robert Thomas, David Thomas, Jeff Thomas, and Mark Agee.
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