Mary Lois Thompson

Published 12:15 pm Friday, April 8, 2016

Mary Lois Thompson went to be with the Lord Thursday, April 7, 2016, at Shady Lawn Health and Rehabilitation. She was 90.

She was the daughter of the late Ernest Quitman and Minnie Gertrude Smith of Vicksburg.

Mary Lois attended Culkin Academy and was a retired employee of Westinghouse with over 30 years of service. She worked at Walmart as a greeter for over seven years. She was a member of Trinity Baptist Church and was a volunteer for over 10 years at Shady Lawn Nursing Home as a beautician. She continued to cut and take care of her lawn until she was 85.

She was devoted to her family and was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother and was the rock of the family.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, James Oliver Thompson, Sr.; one son, James Oliver Thompson Jr.; one daughter, Rose Marie Thompson; two grandsons, Bryan Thompson and James Oliver Thompson III; three brothers, Eddie Smith, David Smith and Austin Smith; three sisters, Gertrude Overman, Ernestine Tompkins and Dorothy Floyd.

Survivors include one daughter, Sandi Thompson Grant (Eddie); two grandchildren, Cassidy Thompson Gurley and Benjamin Edward Grant; seven great-grandchildren, Reed Alan Gurley, Tucker Alston Gurley, Benjamin Hayes Grant, Anna-Lea Grant, Bayleigh Thompson, Chase Thompson and Hannah Thompson.

Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, April 9, 2016, at Frank J. Fisher Funeral Home with the Rev. Marvin Curtis officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Visitation will be Saturday from 9 a.m. until the hour of service.

Pallbearers will be George Joy, Wendell Moore, Kenny Gurley, Jimmy Hartley, Lionel Johnson, Eddie Smith, Dustin Smith, Brandon Smith.  Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Daniel Edney,  St. Joseph Hospice and the staff of Shady Lawn Health and Rehabilitation.

The family would like to thank her nephew George Joy and her niece Joan Smith Farish for their loving care for mom.