Mary Penelope Thompson

1868 - 1959  (91 years)

• Name	Mary Penelope Thompson
  Birth	09 Aug 1868	Clarkston Fork, Cache, Utah Territory, United States
  Gender	Female
  Death	11 Oct 1959	Malad City, Oneida, Idaho, United States
  Burial	15 Oct 1959	Malad City Cemetery, Malad City, Oneida, Idaho, United States
  Person ID	I312684221610	Oswald Genealogy
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

  Family	Arthur Merrifield Williams,   b. 18 Jul 1871, Malad, Oneida, Idaho Territory, United States d. 20 Nov 1940, Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	13 Apr 1889	Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States
  Family ID	F2797	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

• Notes

  A TRIBUTE TO MARY THOMPSON WILLIAMS A TRIBUTE TO MARY THOMPSON WILLIAMS ON HER 90th BIRTHDAY I am especially pleased to be here today to wish you a very happy birthday. You have accomplished what a very few people do in this life. This is to live 90 years and still be able to work with your hands making rugs and piecing quilts. You are a wonder. Last winter we were afraid you would not make it, for you were so very ill. But God answered the prayers of all of us, and here you are today, to smile and welcome us to your party. We hope and pray that God will continue to bless you as long as you are permitted to stay with us. You have lived a long and useful life and was blessed with a good husband a wonderful family of children , grand children, and great, great grandchildren that honor and love you today and always, and, friends without number join in wishing you many happy returns of the day. I often think of the good times we have had here on Deep Creek at your place and the ones that have gone on. We have had our family reunion for 47 years, and you have only missed two. We thank you today for all you, Arthur, and family have done for us, as we have come into your home. You have been kind, and considerate to all who have touched shoulders with you. I can safely say you are loved by those who know you best. I know that you and brother Arthur were a very congenial couple and had a happy home life. So, I think Edgar A. Guest had you in mind when he wrote that beautiful poem "Home" here it says "It takes a heap of livin in a house to make it a home." I would like to add this little verse at this time: This the human touch in the world that counts, the touch of your hand and mine, that means much more to the fainting heart, than shelter or bread or wine. For shelter is gone when the day is done and bread lasts only a day. But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice will live in the heart always. No wish is to good to wish for you but we wish this wish might come true. That whatever sunbeams you've scattered might shine back on you. Written and recited by Aunt Victoria Davis, Malad City, Idaho, August 9, 1958 IN MEMBORY OF MARY PENELOPE THOMPSON WILLIAMS, 91 YEARS: She has closed the last chapter of a long and useful life, in fact she has come to the end of a Perfect Day and the End of a Journey Too. We will think of her as fairing on in the love of there, as the love of here. We will remember her sweet smile and cordial welcome whenever we met her. We extend our love and sympathy to her family. May God Bless them and all of us. October 17, 1959: Victoria Davis MARY PENELOPE THOMPSON WILLIAMS died October 11, 1959