Phyllis Thompson

Phyllis M. Thompson age 76 of Nashua died Tuesday morning at Cedar Health in Charles City. Funeral services will be held 11:00 a.m. Monday, January 30, 2012, at the Little Brown Church, Nashua with Pastor James Mann presiding. Interment will be in Sunnyside Memory Gardens, rural Charles City with Rich Bast, Justin Kasemeier, Jeremy P. Stephens, Michael Istre, Jeremy C. Stephens and Adam Blakewell serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers are Jeffery Stephens, Gary Retterath, Todd Dietz and Chase Bast. Friends may greet the family 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. Sunday, January 29, 2012, at the Hugeback & Chenoweth Funeral Home in Nashua. Visitation continues an hour prior to the service at the church on Monday. Phyllis May Thompson was born July 31, 1935, near Nashua in rural Chickasaw County, IA, the daughter of Ernest and Ella (Fisher) Cagley. Phyllis was raised on the family farm in rural Nashua. She received her education in Nashua and graduated from the Nashua High School in 1953. On December 18, 1955, at the Little Brown Church, Nashua, she married Neal Thompson. To this union five children were born. Phyllis worked as a waitress, a cook and a stay-at-home mother. Both she and her husband worked at the fairgrounds when there were stock-car races. She was a life-long member of the Little Brown Church, helped with Women’s Fellowship and was a choir member. She loved baking, crocheting, cross-stitching and knitting. Survivors include her husband, Neal Thompson of Ionia; four daughters, Elizabeth Kasemeier (Ron Jensen) of Cresco, Susan (Alvin) Klink of Marble Rock, Peggy (Paul) High of North Washington, Dawn (Michael) Estre of Cypress, TX; one son, Neal Allen Thompson of Ionia; twenty five grandchildren; thirty four great-grandchildren; one brother, Rolland (Marlys) Cagley of Nashua; two sisters, Patricia Dietz of Nashua, Sharon (Gene) Keeling of Waverly. She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Glenn Cagley.