According to a note left by my Aunt, she says (following her Grandfather's obit):
"Well Known
Painter Dies: Frank David
Thompson, 60, well known painter and paper-hanger of the city, died yesterday morning at 11:40 o'clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Kyle
Stradling, on
Luick Avenue. Mr. Thompson was born in
Ohio. He was a member of the Crawfordsville
Lodge of the
Loyal Order of
Moose. He is survived by two sons, Guy W. Thompson and Harry Thompson; and five daughters, Mrs. Kyle
Stradling, Mrs. Edward
Knecht, Mrs. Grace
Bechtel, Mrs. Charles
Knecht, all of
Muncie, and Mrs. Grant
Hickerson, of Indianapolis. The funeral services will be held at the
Stradling home Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Burial will be made in
Beech Grove Cemetery."
Note written by Pauline
Knecht Mitchell:
"Grandfather
Thompson had a grocery on the corner just a couple houses away so I spent time there. He would let me fix a treat of candy for those people who paid their bills. He soon found out I was giving his profit away because I filled the sacks with candy, usually the kind I liked. So he stopped this.
He spent most of his time entertaining ladies in his back room where he lived.
Grandfather or Frank D. Thompson left
Mollie (Mary Jane
Harris), my Grandmother, with 7 children to raise. He married
Wilda immediately. They had a restaurant in
Linden,
Indiana. I was there a couple of times."