Genevieve Gevie Thompson

away on April 5 th 2020, at the age of 101 as a Centenarian.

Burial will be April 13 th , 2020 at Mills & Mills Memorial Park, Tumwater

Washington and will be attended by immediate family only. A celebration

of life to be arranged after the Coronavirus Pandemic is deemed to be safe

for small groups of her friends and family to attend.

Gevie was born August 12 th , 1918 in Mansfield Washington and lived most

of her early life in Eastern Washington in a large hard working family of

farmers. Her parents William and Helen (Bell) Butt had eight children,

Stanley, Gertrude, Gevie, Richard, Gene, Margaret, Helen and still surviving

Emerson. Gevie met her future husband Leland (Lee) A. Thompson at his

Aunt Reatha’s Dry Goods Store Waterville and she knew immediately he

would be her husband and the father of their children. They were married in

Waterville and lived on their family Orchard in Orondo with Lee’s mother

Beulah where Kathryn L. (Thompson) Anderson of Port Angeles was born.

The family then moved to the Spokane area where Robert E. Thompson of

Tonasket, and Patricia L. (Thompson) Cowell of Olympia were born. The

family moved to Olympia WA for better job opportunities in October of

1948. Their final child was born in Olympia, Randall W. Thompson. Gevie

is survived by all of her children, eight Grandchildren, five

Great-Grandchildren, and two Great- Great-Grandchildren, and many

beloved nieces and nephews as well as countless friends and the

congregation of the McKenzie Road Baptist Church. Gevie lived in Olympia

in the same home on Gull Harbor Road into her 90’s. Her beloved husband

Lee passed away in January of 1974, and now they will finally be laid to rest

together. She worked at Sears in Lacey in the Hardware Department for 26

years. She was an active member of the McKenzie Road Baptist Church and

involved in many of their community outreach programs. She was the

consummate Energizer Bunny and attributed her long life to daily drinks of

warm Mountain Dew, but our family thinks it was the seven years her

daughter Kathy has helped to care for her. Gevie was good hearted, funny,

intelligent, a great cook, loyal, stubborn, friendly, articulate and most of all a

loving daughter, sibling, wife, mother, grand-everything and a friend to all.

No one ever left Gevie’s home hungry.

Memorials donations can be made to Children’s Hospital of

Seattle Washington in her name or any charity of your choice.