Freda E. Thompson, 96, died Thursday, March 14, 2013, at Whispering Pines Assisted Living.
A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Trinity Lutheran Church. Burial will be at Restlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Wisconsin Rapids.
Visitation will be at the church from 9 a.m. Monday until the service.
Condolences may be offered online at bostonfuneralhome.net.
Mrs. Thompson was born Jan. 22, 1917, in Rosholt, a daughter of the late Peder and Emma (Hotvedt) Gullikson. She attended school in Rosholt, graduating in 1934. She then moved to Evanston, Ill., to work and go to nursing school. She graduated from Evangelical Lutheran Hospital Nursing School in 1939.
She was married to Andrew G. Thompson on Sept. 14, 1940, in Evanston, Ill. He died Nov. 19, 1979.
She worked as a registered nurse in Evanston, Ill., and Boston, Mass., during World War II; Langlade County Memorial Hospital in Antigo; the office of doctors Gehin, Stein and Erickson; and at St. Michael’s Hospital in Stevens Point. She retired in 1974.
She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and helped with various activities over the years, including quilting projects, assembling baby layettes, church rummage sales, assembling monthly newsletters, Altar Guild, the Women of Trinity group and serving at various luncheons. She also volunteered assisting residents at the Stevens Point Care Center and the Portage County Health Care Center, escorting them to chapel services.
Survivors include one son, Paul (Patricia), Lynchburg, Va.; four daughters, Judy (Jim) Schorman, Eau Claire, Joyce (Sam) Molski, Stevens Point, Jan (Mike) Slowinski, Junction City, and Karen (Jim) Baumgart, Muskego; 12 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
She was also preceded in death by three sisters, Adelia (Herb) Loeper, Gladys (Irving) Hartson, and Evelyn (Luell) Dobbe; three brothers, Irving (Mayme) Gullikson, Alford (Ann) Gullikson, Lloyd (Edith) Gullikson; and two grandchildren.
