THOMPSON, Bonna

Local and Personal.

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The funeral of Miss Bona [sic] Thompson who died at her home in Irvington Thursday afternoon, was held at the family home Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock and was conducted by Rev. A. R. Benton, one of Miss Thompson’s former teachers at Butler college. Miss Thompson was the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Thompson and was one of the best known young women in Irvington. She graduated from Butler in the class of ’97 and the following year was spent at Wellesley College. She was a member of the Kap­pa Kappa Gamma fraternity and was also treasurer of the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was twenty-one years old and was born in Edinburg. With her parents she removed to Irvington in 1890. Her father has large banking and farm inter­ests in Edinburg. Miss Thompson recently returned from a trip to Europe with her mother. She reached home about three weeks ago and has since been confined to her room. Her death was due to typhoid fever.

Link to Bonna Thompson’s grave

Note: The Marion County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book H-8, page 10, records that Bona Thompson, a twenty-one-year-old white female, died 12 Oct 1899 in Indianapolis.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry