Beulah Frances “Kitten” Thompson

Beulah Frances “Kitten” Thompson, 100-years-old, died Saturday, Feb. 29.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. today in the chapel at Dutton Funeral Home with Pastor Jeffrey Pehl, First United Methodist Church, officiating.

Graveside services will follow at Highland Cemetery.

Kitten as she was known to all in Iowa Park was born Oct. 10, 1919, to Beulah (Parker) and Albert May on the family homestead West of Wichita Falls close to the Kamay and Holliday Split. She graduated from Iowa Park High School in 1938 and attended Hardin Jr. College (now Midwestern State University) in Wichita Falls. She married Lee Lavere Thompson in Nov. of 1941. He preceded her in death after a brain aneurysm in 1969. She was a long-time member of the First United Methodist Church and remained active until her later years.

Kitten had five siblings who all preceded her in death, Katherine Nowlin, Dorothy Chastain, Albert “Bud” May, Lydia Squire, and Floyd (Pete) May.

Survivors include her four children, Cathy Uhren, Larry Thompson, Mark Thompson all of Iowa Park, and Marcia Kelly of Waco; seven grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be made to First UMC Iowa Park or Hospice Plus of Wichita Falls.