Betty M. Thompson

Betty M. Thompson, 96 of Boardman passed away peacefully Friday morning at her home.  Betty was born December 16, 1922 in Youngstown, a daughter of Stephan and Mary Zweig Haus.  She was a 1941 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School.  Upon graduation, Betty went to work at the Record Shop on Market Street.  After leaving the Record Shop, Betty worked at McKelvey’s Credit Union and H & R Block.  She was a member of St. Charles Church and volunteered her time doing taxes for people at the Boardman Library.  Betty and her family were one of the original member of the Boardman Swim Club on West Blvd.  Her husband Keith M. Thompson, whom she married on December 8, 1946, passed away on December 10, 2009.  She leaves, her children Keith S. (Susan) Thompson of Greeley, Colorado and Amy Mendenhall of Boardman, sister Margie Morrisroe Seidner of Cincinnati and Margie’s children, Donald Morrisroe, Neil Morrisroe and Colleen Small and their spouses and children and grandchildren Kayenta Williams, Rosalie Thompson, Yoselin Thompson, Flor de Maria Thompson, Evelin Thompson, George Norris, Sarah Mendenhall and David Mendenhall, and great grandchildren, Noah, Kai, Sophia and Lily.  Besides her parents and husband, Betty is preceded in death by her brother Frank Haus.  Friends may call from 10 to 10:50 a.m. Tuesday at St. Charles Church.  There will be a Mass of Christian Burial following at 11a.m.Tuesday at St. Charles.  Material tributes can be made in Betty’s memory to Rescue Mission of Mahoning Valley, 62 Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd., Youngstown Ohio 44510, or to Second Harvest Food Bank, 2805 Salt Springs Rd., Youngstown, Ohio 44509.  Arrangements are by the Fox Funeral Home,4700 Market St. Boardman.

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