Individual Notes

Note for: Leon Tompkins, 13 SEP 1896 - 7 APR 1974 Index

Event:   I2290
     Type:   REFI

Burial:
     Date:   APR 1974
     Place:   - Evergreen Cemetery, Mantorville, Dodge, Minnesota
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Township Mantorville
County: Dodge
Name: LEON Tompkins
Birth Date: 13/SEP/1896
Death Date: 07/APR/1974
Cemetery: Evergreen
Comments: VET. MN S2 US NAVY WW I. SP. FLORENCE JENSEN.
Section: 702 C
Birth Note:    Olmsted County Historical Society Card Catalog.

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     1973 with an antique trunk

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     Christmas 1966; Florence, Leon Tompkins and Trent, Erik, Craig Borgeson

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     Back row, Katharine, Barry and Stanley
Front Row Jerry and Russell

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Note for: LeRoy Tompkins, 13 SEP 1896 - 22 MAR 1971 Index

Event:   I2291
     Type:   REFI

Burial:
     Date:   1971
     Place:   - Byron Cemetery, Byron, Olmsted, Minnesota
     Note:

Township Kalmar
County: Olmsted
Name: LEROY Tompkins
Birth Date: 1896
Death Date: 1971
Cemetery: Byron
Comments: SP. MARY. WITH LAFAYETTE & MERTIE
Section: 28 4
Birth Note:    Olmsted County Historical Society Card Catalog

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     Aug 1970

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     ca. 1952-53

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     Back row, Katharine, Barry and Stanley
Front Row Jerry and Russell

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Note for: Clarence Everett Tompkins, 14 APR 1909 - 7 JAN 1990 Index

Event:   I2292
     Type:   REFI

Burial:
     Date:   11 JAN 1990
     Place:   Byron, Olmsted, Minnesota
     Note:   The Byron Cemetery, Byron, Minnesota.
Death Note:    Funeral at The Byron United Methodist Church, Byron, MN on Thurs. 11 Jan 1990.

Casket Bearers:
Stanley Tompkins, Jerry Tompkins, Stanley Borgeson, Richard Bedney, Wm. DeBlieck, Dale Brooks.

There was a review at the Dibble Funeral Home in Kasson on the Wednesday before and for an hour on Thursday, the day of the funeral.

Clarence lived on a farm outside Byron Minnesota until 1988. He retired from farming in 1976. Clarence had driven school bus for the Byron School District in the early 1930's and again from 1960 to 1976. He was a member of the Byron Grange and the Kasson Senior Citizens group.

He had 5 children, 12 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.

Copy of Funeral Card and obituary in the scrapbook.

From obituary included in the Tompkins booklet (Tompkins Picnic, 1996)
Rochester Post-Bulletin, Tuesday, January 9, 1990
Rites for Clarence Tompkins Thursday
KASSON- The funeral for Clarence E. Tompkins will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Byron United Methodist Church with the Revs. Paul Stambaugh and John Morris officiating. Burial will be in Byron Cemetery.
Mr. Tompkins, 80, a retired Byron area farmer, died Sunday at his home.

He was born April 14, 1909, in rural Byron and married Hilda Wuorinen on Nov. 6, 1935 in Norwood, Iowa. The couple farmed in rural Byron until 1976 when they retire. They continued to live on the farm until 1988 when they moved into Kasson. Mr. Tompkins drove a school bus for the Byron School District in the early 1930's and then again from 1960 to 1976. He was a member of the Byron Grange and the Kasson Senior Citizens group.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Russell of Byron and Donald of Austin, Texas; three daughters, Evelyn (Mrs. Iver) Beck of Minnetonka, Kay (Mrs. Gary) Kalis of cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Susan (Mrs. Wayne) Fiyalko of Seminole, Fla.; 12 grand children; and five great grandchildren. A son, two brothers and a sister preceded him in death.
Friends may call from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Dibble Funeral Home in Kasson and an hour before the service at the church Thursday.

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     Date Unknown (Presumably pre-1988)

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     Date Unknown (Presumably pre-1988)

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     approximately 1 year old

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     Back row, Katharine, Barry and Stanley
Front Row Jerry and Russell