Thompson, Clarence A.

Picher Oklahoma, Nov 20, 1925 Clarence Arthur Thompson, 19 years old, was almost instantly killed at 11:20 this morning when his skull was fractured by a falling boulder at the Velie-Lion Mine No. 4, a mile west of Cardin Oklahoma. Thompson was tub hooker. He was standing at the bottom of the shaft when the rock fell from an ascending can and struck him. He died ten minutes later. The youth lived with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Thompson, at 617 Vantage street, Picher. The family has been in Picher four years. Clarence was graduated from Galena Kansas high school where the family resided before coming to Picher. The body will be removed from the morgue of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher, tomorrow to the home of a brother at 1600 Main Street, Galena Kansas. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 Sunday afternoon at the Methodist church there.

Picher Oklahoma, Nov. 21. ... Clarence A. Thompson was a son of Mr. and Mrs. James Thompson, Sixth and Vantage streets, Picher. Besides his parents, he is survived by two brothers, Joe Thompson and James Thompson, Jr., of Picher Oklahoma, and an uncle, Joe Martin of Galena Kansas. The body will lie at his home until the hour of the funeral.

Picher Oklahoma, Nov. 23, 1925 Funeral services for Clarence A. Thompson, 19 years old, who was killed at the Velie Lion Mine Friday, were held at the Methodist church of Galena Kansas at 2:30 yesterday. The Rev. E. E. Hollar of Galena officiated and burial was in Galena under the direction of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher.