Doris Benecia Thompson

DORIS B. THOMPSON Doris B. Thompson, 88, resident of Bartlesville, died at 4:15 P.M. on Friday, July 6, in the Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma surrounded by her loving family and friends. Funeral Services for Mrs. Thompson will be held at 10:30 A.M. on Tuesday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints with Brother Milton Cummings officiating. There will be a viewing in the Relief Society Room from 9:00 – to 10:00 A.M. for friends and family, before the funeral service. Interment will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery Bartlesville, under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory. Memorial Contributions may be made in her memory to the General Missionary Fund, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints C/o Bishop Kevin Reid 1318 S.E. Lariat St. Bartlesville, OK.74006. Doris Benecia Eutsler was born August 6, 1923 in rural Ochelata, Oklahoma to John George and Sarah Lee (Loghry) Eutsler, the 4th of 8 children. Doris received her education attending grammar school at Herd School in Osage County, and then started the 9th grade at Ochelata, graduating from Ochelata High School in 1942. She later continued her education, and graduated from Bartlesville Business College. Her parents moved to the Salt Lake City, Utah and she followed them with the rest of her family. She worked at a radio tube plant while helping with the war effort. She married her high school sweetheart Wesley Ray Thompson on April 9, 1944 in Salt Lake City, Utah while he was serving in the Army and stationed in Oregon. Wesley was sent to Germany during World War II, and she stayed in Salt Lake City with her family. Their first son Wesley Ray Thompson Jr. was born while Doris’s husband was still in Germany. After the War they lived in Utah, Washington, and Oregon while her husband was still in the Army Reserves. He was called back to service for the Korean Conflict, and they were in California during that time. Soon after his discharge in 1951 they moved back to Bartlesville, Oklahoma where their daughter Karen was born; they then moved to Dewey in 1954, and lived there until 2007 when they moved to Bartlesville. Doris was the bookkeeper for her husband’s business and a homemaker and mother. She was a talented seamstress, and had many hobbies and talents. Doris and Wesley loved to go on family camping trips with their kids, travel in their motor home, and Square Dancing was a great love for both of them. They started square dancing in 1957, and Doris continued after her husband’s death in 1986 with the Swingin ‘ Squares. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and enjoyed her many callings and friendships she cultivated there. She was preceded in death by her husband, Wesley April, 26, 1986, and by her siblings, Alma Moffatt, June Eutsler, Treva Dahl, John David Eutsler, Richard Eutsler, and Clarence Eutsler. Mrs. Thompson is survived by her son Wesley Ray Thompson, Jr. and his wife Mary of Spring, Texas, by one daughter, Mrs. Karen T. Sparks and her husband Russell of Bartlesville, and by one granddaughter, Sarah M. Thompson, and her husband Jay of Plantersville Texas ,by one great–grandson Zane Bryant Brown of Plantersville , and by one sister, Marie Carroll of Bartlesville, by several nieces and nephews, plus her special nieces Louise Stockton of Bartlesville, Oklahoma and Robin Howell and grand nieces Karly and Taylr Furnas, of Bowling Green Kentucky, and a host of Many loving friends. Funeral Services and interment were under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory of Bartlesville. PDF Printable Version

Doris Benecia Thompson

August 6, 1923 - July 6, 2012