Enid Thompson

Enid Thompson Centerville – Enid Thompson peacefully passed from this life on Friday, August 26, 2011 from natural causes. Born December 2, 1919, in Hyrum, Utah to parents LeRoy Smith and Eva Jane Kearl, she is survived by two sons: LeRoy (Georgia) Thompson of Yakima, WA and Dick (Rhonda) Thompson of North Salt Lake, UT. She has seven grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. Enid was raised on a farm in Hyrum, Utah, with her sister Ila. She learned at an early age the importance of hard work and the rewards that came from sticking to a project. Whether harvesting crops, milking cows, cleaning house, Enid was up to the task. She graduated from South Cache High with her class of 1938. She graduated from beauty school and practiced her trade in a beauty shop and also in her own kitchen for many years as she served her neighbors and family. She married Berthel Marion Thompson, December 2, 1941, in the Logan LDS temple. She began married life in Salt Lake City, later moving to Logan. Fresno, California became her temporary home while her husband was in the Army Air Corps. While her husband was overseas during WWII, she moved back to Hyrum with her first son, LeRoy. Her second son Dick came after the war and within a few years she left her beloved Hyrum to live in San Leandro, CA. She lived in California raising her two sons. In 2000, she moved to Centerville where she could be close to family members who could assist with her ailing husband. Her dear husband died in 2001. Her family and close friends at the Courtyard Lane Condos and the Centerville 19th Ward have been a great support. Though she was blind in one eye and partially blind in the other, she kept busy in her condo and made it a point to be positive and friendly to all who came to visit her. Funeral services will be held 11 am Friday, Sept. 2, 2011 at the Centerville 19th Ward Chapel, 900 S. 400 E. where friends may visit from 9:30 – 10:30 am prior to services. Interment Hyrum City Cemetery. The family especially thanks the many friends who visited Enid over the ten years she lived in Centerville. Your compassionate service was a tender mercy to her. We will be eternally grateful for the tender care Enid received from the full time aids, nurse, and Hospice that assisted Enid in her home.