1920
Tommie
2011
Tommie Lucille Thompson
September 9, 1920 — July 12, 2011
Tommie Lucille Thompson, 90, passed away peacefully at her beloved Woolmarket home on the Biloxi River July 12, 2011. She is preceded in death by her sisters, Bertha Stroud and Doris Lonigro and her brothers Eugene Thompson, Alton Thompson and Arles Thompson.
Ms. Thompson is survived by her sister, Jarrell ""Dubie"" Skains of Montgomery, LA and by her devoted and long-time friend, Ora V Long.
Born on September 9, 1920, to Dan'l and Ella Horn Thompson, Tommie grew up in Montgomery, LA where she enjoyed a rambunctious childhood of horseback riding, helping out on the family farm, chewing sugar cane and cultivating a lifelong desire to be outdoors.
Her love of fishing proved to be an enduring passion. While exploring the inlets and bayous of the Tchoutacabouffa and Biloxi Rivers, she discovered the piece of property she would ultimately clear, build on and call home with her friend Ora for more than 45 years.
She survived breast cancer not once, but twice, a tireless fighter whose ability to pinch a penny and fry fish to perfection was legendary. She treasured a good joke and a great martini.
Tommie caught countless bream, speckled trout, bass and ""Biloxi Bacon"" throughout her life, but perhaps her most satisfying catch was the life she enjoyed as a nurse anesthetist.
A graduate of Charity Hospital School of Nursing in Natchez and nurse anesthesia school at Charity Hospital of New Orleans, Tommie first worked in Vicksburg, MS then at the Biloxi Veterans Administration Hospital and at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport. She cared for her patients, eased their fears of surgery and provided an invaluable service as a talented anesthetist to hundreds of residents of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She was a lifetime member of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists.
In keeping with her wishes to support cancer research, she donated her body to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
Memorials should be in the form of donations to the charity of your choice or simply a moment of reflection on a life which was spent in the care of others, on the water and forever within the hearts of friends and family so richly blessed to have known and loved her.
Riemann Family Funeral Home, 11280 Three Rivers Road in Gulfport, assisted the family with arrangements.
For more information, please call (228)539-9800.
Ms. Thompson is survived by her sister, Jarrell ""Dubie"" Skains of Montgomery, LA and by her devoted and long-time friend, Ora V Long.
Born on September 9, 1920, to Dan'l and Ella Horn Thompson, Tommie grew up in Montgomery, LA where she enjoyed a rambunctious childhood of horseback riding, helping out on the family farm, chewing sugar cane and cultivating a lifelong desire to be outdoors.
Her love of fishing proved to be an enduring passion. While exploring the inlets and bayous of the Tchoutacabouffa and Biloxi Rivers, she discovered the piece of property she would ultimately clear, build on and call home with her friend Ora for more than 45 years.
She survived breast cancer not once, but twice, a tireless fighter whose ability to pinch a penny and fry fish to perfection was legendary. She treasured a good joke and a great martini.
Tommie caught countless bream, speckled trout, bass and ""Biloxi Bacon"" throughout her life, but perhaps her most satisfying catch was the life she enjoyed as a nurse anesthetist.
A graduate of Charity Hospital School of Nursing in Natchez and nurse anesthesia school at Charity Hospital of New Orleans, Tommie first worked in Vicksburg, MS then at the Biloxi Veterans Administration Hospital and at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport. She cared for her patients, eased their fears of surgery and provided an invaluable service as a talented anesthetist to hundreds of residents of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She was a lifetime member of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists.
In keeping with her wishes to support cancer research, she donated her body to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
Memorials should be in the form of donations to the charity of your choice or simply a moment of reflection on a life which was spent in the care of others, on the water and forever within the hearts of friends and family so richly blessed to have known and loved her.
Riemann Family Funeral Home, 11280 Three Rivers Road in Gulfport, assisted the family with arrangements.
For more information, please call (228)539-9800.
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