Dorothy M THOMPSON

Notes:

Dorothy T Arrison, b. 27 Jun 1925 lived at 18 Pilgrim Road in Darien, Connecticut in 1993 with, apparently, her husband Robert A Arrison Jr., b. 14 Jun 1925.

Dorothy T Arrison died 10 Jan 2011, last residence Darien.

Memorial for Dorothy Thompson Arrison Born in Neenah, WI on Jun. 27, 1925 Departed on Jan. 10, 2011 and resided in Darien, CT. Service: Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011 1:00 pm Please click on the links above for locations, times, maps, and directions.

Dorothy Thompson Arrison, 85, of Darien passed away quietly Monday evening, January 10, 2011 after a long and courageous battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, at the Rosenthal Hospice Residence in Stamford, surrounded by loving family members. Born June 27, 1925 in Neenah, Wisconsin, "Dottie" was the only child of Veneta Beck Thompson and Oscar Theodore Thompson. During World War II she attended Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin. After the war she transferred to Wellesley College, graduating in 1947 as a Wellesley Scholar and a member of the Zeta Alpha Society with a major in zoology and a minor in art. She met her beloved husband Bob during her senior year in college and they married in 1949. The family moved to Darien in 1970. She will be well-remembered for her great generosity, gracious spirit, and nurturing heart. In addition to being a wonderful mother, she was consistently involved in church and volunteer activities. She was a member of the Noroton Presbyterian Church, where she served as a deacon, an elder, and a Stephen Minister. Her volunteer activities included work with the Junior League, the Darien Community Association, and Person-to-Person, for which she served as a board member. She was also actively involved with the Noroton Yacht Club, the Country Club of Darien, Wee Burn Country Club, and with an informal women's group, the Go Girls. She enjoyed sailing, locally and on the Maine coast, playing bridge, playing tennis, drawing and painting, and solving crosswords and cryptograms. She is survived by four children, Robert Thompson "Tom" Arrison of Providence, Rhode Island, John Gilmour Arrison of Belfast, Maine, Janet Arrison Spedden, and James Alexander Arrison; four son- and daughters-in-law; six grandchildren; two brothers-in-law; and six nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband of fifty-five years, Robert Alexander Arrison, Jr. and by an infant daughter, Jane Arrison. A memorial service will be held at Noroton Presbyterian Church, 2011 Post Road, Darien on Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 1 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to Noroton Presbyterian Church, P. O. Box 3401, Darien, CT 06820; or to the Bennett Cancer Center, Stamford Hospital Foundation, 1351 Washington Blvd, Suite 202, Stamford, CT 06902. Edward Lawrence Funeral Home of Darien is handling the arrangements.

Buried:
cremains

Dorothy married Robert A ARRISON, Jr in 1949. Robert was born on 14 Jun 1925; died on 18 Sep 2004; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Neenah, Winnebago County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jane ARRISON was born on 19 Aug 1954; died on 22 Aug 1955; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Neenah, Winnebago County, Wisconsin.

Notes:

Oscar registered for the draft on June 5, 1917, in Kaukauna. He was single and was a salesman for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in central Wisconsin. Oscar was described as tall and of medium build with blue eyes and brown hair. He had “defective eyes.”

In the 1920 census, he is probably the Oscar T Thompson living with his wife Veneta in Milwaukee. Although that Oscar’s father was said to be born in Wisconsin and his mother in Norway, the census-taker most likely got things turned around because the Milwaukee Oscar’s occupation, salesman of rubber goods, is the same as our Oscar had in the 1917 draft registration.

In the 1930 census, Oscar is back in Neenah. (He is indexed as Oren T Thompson with wife Weneta.) Oscar is now doing well. He is a staff superintendent in a paper mill, lives in a house that he owns and that is worth $8000 (338 East Columbia Avenue), and employs a 26 year-old live-in servant named Hazel Belling. Veneta’s mother, Mae Beck, a 62 year-old widow, also lives with them. Oscar was not a veteran.

In the 1940 census, he and Veneta and Dorothy live in Neenah. Oscar is staff superintendent at a paper mill. They live in the same house, 338 East Columbia Avenue, in which they all lived five years earlier. Included in their household is Una Beck, a 40 year-old divorcee who had lived in Milwaukee in 1935. She is called “sister-in-law” and is an unemployed public school teacher. Oscar is a college graduate, Veneta and Una have two years of college.

In his World War II draft registration, he was employed by Kimberly Clark of Neenah.

Birth:
South Kaukauna

Died:
Date from Oak Hill Cemetery on-line burial records.

Buried:
N EA 000 0 64 0 002

Oscar married Veneta A BECK about 1920. Veneta (daughter of Charles BECK and Mary M) was born on 19 Oct 1893 in Marathon County, Wisconsin; died on 12 Jul 1982 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Neenah, Winnebago County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was the daughter of Charles and Mary Beck of Wausau. The parents of Charles and Mary were born in Germany. In the 1910 census, Veneta is 16 years old and has an 11 year-old sister named Una. In the 1920 census, Charles, Mary, and Una live in Milwaukee. Veneta is not living with them.

According to her entry in the Connecticut death index, she was the widow of Oscar and had been a teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools. She resided in Darien at 18 Pilgrim Road, the home of her daughter. According to the SSDI, her SS# had been issued in Massachusetts in 1962.

Birth:
WHS Genealogy Index

Died:
Connecticut Death Index. Oak Hill Cemetery records say 11 Jul.

Buried:
N EA 000 0 64 0 006

Notes:

Jim has Helge as #6825. According to Jim, Helge was a businessman in the U.S. and married a Marianne Hougen (b. 1859, d. 1956, m. 27 Jun 1888) and died 30 Dec 1942 in Manitowoc County or in Kaukauna.

In the 1930 census, he is Harry E. Thompson, 74, with wife Marianne, 71, who lived in Kaukauna. Living with them is their 31 year-old daughter, Marcella, who is a high school teacher. Harry is apparently retired because he has no occupation. In the 1920 census, he, Marion, and Marcella live in Kaukauna. Harry came to the U.S. in 1869. He is the proprietor of a shoe store. In the 1910 census we learn that they also have a son Oscar, 20, and that Oscar and Marcella are the only two children that “May” has had. Harry is a merchant with a shoe store and Oscar is an “apprentice merchant.” In the 1900 census we learn that Harry came to the U.S. in 1870.

In the 1940 census, Harry, Marianne, and Marcella live at 114 West 9th Street in Kaukauna. That is the same house that all three of them had lived in five years earlier. Harry, 84, has no occupation. Marcella, 42, is a school teacher.

In the 1880 census, he was 24 year-old Harry Thompson living with, and working in the shoe shop of, Knut K Strande and his family of Cato, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

In the 1910 Kaukauna city directory, Harry E Thompson’s occupation is “full line shoes” on 2nd. He and Marion reside on 9th.

In the 1936 Kaukauna city directory, Harry E Thompson and wife Marion reside at 114 W 9th.

There is a biographical sketch of Harry in the History of Outagamie County, p. 783, published in 1911:

HARRY E. THOMPSON, a well-known and successful shoe merchant of Kaukauna, Wisconsin, who is the proprietor of the oldest establishment in this line on the south side, has been intimately connected with civic affairs in Kaukauna during the past few years. Mr. Thompson was born in Norway, February 1, 1856, and came to the United States in 1871 with an uncle, on whose farm in Manitowoc county, Wisconsin, he worked during the summer months, while attending school during the winter time. In 1873 he went to Cato, Wisconsin, to learn the trade of shoemaker, and later was located at Alexandria, Minnesota, and Bismarck, North Dakota. After one year at the latter place he returned to Cato, from whence after a short period he came to Kaukauna and opened a shoe store, in 1884, in the Mills Block. In 1897, his increased trade demanding more space, he came to his present location, where he has a modern establishment, equipped with every convenience and facility known to the shoe trade. Mr. Thompson is possessed of much business ability, and his business has demanded much of his attention, but he has still found time to devote to public matters, and has served very acceptably as alderman and poor commissioner, and is now acting in the capacities of water commissioner and school treasurer. His fraternal connections are with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Masons. Mr. Thompson was married June 27, 1888, to Marion Haugen, of Valders, Wisconsin, and two children have been born to this union: Oscar T., who is a student at the University of Wisconsin, at Madison; and Marcella, aged fourteen, attending the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are members of the Lutheran faith, but are attending the Congregational Church at Kaukauna.

Died:
His obit is in the Wisconsin Necrology files, vol. 48, p. 125. Date from Oak Hill on-line burial records.

Buried:
N EA 000 0 64 0 001

Helge married Marian HOUGEN on 27 Jun 1888. Marian (daughter of Torger Knutsen HOUGEN and Anna Olsdatter BERGE) was born in Jan 1859 in Wisconsin; died on 6 Jun 1956 in Wisconsin; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Neenah, Winnebago County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Both of her parents were born in Norway. In the 1900 and 1910 censuses she had had only the two children.

Birth:
“of Valders”

Died:
Date from on-line burial records for Oak Hill Cemetery.

Notes:

Died:
Date from cemetery’s on-line burial records.

Buried:
N EA 000 0 90 0 001

Charles married Mary M. Mary was born about 1868 in Wisconsin; died on 8 Jun 1937; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Neenah, Winnebago County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
As May. Date from cemetery’s on-line burial records.

Buried:
N EA 000 0 90 0 002

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 13 Jun 1821, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

One of Ove Ovesen’s godparents (baptismal sponsors).

Son Ole Tollefson (and succeeding lineage) per Brad Ellingboe.

In the 1865 census, Tollev Olsson owns the Ellingbø søndre farm #21 in Hoved subparish, Vang. The farm has 1 horse, 8 cattle, 10 sheep, 1 pig, 4 barleys and 2 potatoes. The household consists of 11 people: Tollev, 43, his wife Marit Jogersdatter, 40, their sons Ole, 19, Christoffer, 16, Helge, 10, Andris, 8, and Gudbrand, 1, and their daughters Berit, 13, and Marit, 4. Also on the farm were two farmhand/servants: Agot Iversdatter, 65, and Knud Iversson, 45.

In the 1886 land register, he is the owner of Skaare on Ellingbø sondre (34-1, old 10-21).

Birth:
as Tollev Olsen Ellingböe in the Vang church book, of Skøre

Tollef married Marit Jøgersdatter QUAM on 20 Jun 1843 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Marit (daughter of Jøger Andersen KVAM and Berit Gulliksdatter BERGE) was born in 1826 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1898 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Born nørre Kvam. Gardkjerring på Skøre.

She was one of the baptismal sponsors for Ole Ellingboe (#3235).

Torger married Anna Olsdatter BERGE on 30 Nov 1857 in Wisconsin. Anna (daughter of Ola Gullikson BERGE and Anne Ivarsdatter TUNE) was born on 12 Feb 1835 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 24 Oct 1931 in Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 8 Mar 1835, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Her obit said that she came to the U.S. on July 6, 1854, with her family and settled in Manitowoc County.