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Submitted: 1/14/16 • Approved: 1/15/16 • Last Updated: 3/29/18 • R782541-G0-S3
1869 - 1941
'GENE' THOMAS JEWELER HERE 48 YEARS, DIES
Had Paralytic Stroke April 24; Funeral Wednesday.
Eugene D. ("Gene") Thomas, 71, a jeweler here forty-eight years, died this morning at 4:10 o'clock at his home at 815 East Harrison Street.
He was stricken with paralysis a week ago last Thursday and had been in critical condition since then.
The funeral is to be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Dee Riley Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. L.V. Freeman, pastor of the First Christian Church, and burial will be made in the Forest Cemetery. The body is lying in state at the funeral home and the casket is not to be opened during the service.
Mr. Thomas, whose full name was Eugene Dawson, was born on a farm near Kirksville, June 12, 1869, a son of David Nelson and Elizabeth Thomas. When he was twenty-one years old he and Ed Sands opened a jewelry store on the southwest corner of the square and he was continuously in the jewelry business until 1938, when he retired.
He was a charter member of the Rotary Club here, member of the Modern Woodmen of America, was active in the Liberty Loan campaigns of the World War and a member of the Christian Church.
Married in 1890 to Frances Browder, one daughter was born to them. Mrs. Thomas died in 1934 and the daughter, Mrs. Letah Anderson, in 1935.
He was married in 1937 to Mrs. Avis Ferguson.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Avis F. Thomas; two grandchildren, Jack and Bettie Anderson, a stepson, Donald Ferguson, 13 years old; three sisters, Mrs. Ella Fowler, Los Angeles; Mrs. Vida Russell, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Edna Stuck, Oelwein, Ia., and one brother, Milton Thomas, Los Angeles. One sister, Ethel, died several years ago.
Kirksville Daily Express
Kirksville, Missouri
May 5, 1941
Spouses:
Frances Jane Browder Thomas (1869 - 1934)
Avis E. Callison Thomas (1891 - 1985)
Children:
Letah Marion Thomas Anderson (1893 - 1935)
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