Obituary for Wilma Thompson

Wilma Joyce Thompson of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died on April 9, 2015, at the Hillcrest Manor Nursing Home in Blackwell at the age of 72 years.

Wilma Joyce Thompson was born on January 17, 1943 in Purcell, Oklahoma, to Kenneth Ray and Bessie Lee (Raper) Williams. The family moved to Blackwell from Purcell in 1950. As a young girl she would ask her mother for old catalogs and take them and make paper dolls. She also loved to sew and made her own doll clothes. She attended Blackwell Public Schools and graduated from Blackwell High School in 1962. While in school she took two years of Latin and Spanish and won the Spanish award in Spanish I for having the highest grades. Following her education she married Robert A. Rutledge Jr. on January 29, 1963, and to this union they had four sons, Thomas, Marvin, Patrick, and Timothy. On January 30, 1975, she married Lark A. Thompson and they made their home in Ponca City until moving to Blackwell in 1977. She worked for the Blackwell Nursing Home and Hillcrest Manor for twenty four years retiring in 1995. She was a tomboy at heart and enjoyed playing sports. She also enjoyed crafts, quilting, listening to gospel music from the 50s and 60s, reading, spending time with her grandchildren and traveling to numerous historical sites. She was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene in Blackwell.

She is survived by her husband Lark A, Thompson of Blackwell; four sons, Thomas Rutledge of Tuttle, Oklahoma, Marvin Rutledge of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Patrick Rutledge of Wichita, Kansas, and Timothy Rutledge of Blackwell; eight grandchildren, and five great grandchildren; three brothers, Johnny Williams of Blackwell, Carlos “Corky” Williams of Blackwell, and Daniel Williams of Blackwell; and two sisters, Glenda Rutter and Barbara Clark both Blackwell.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Services are scheduled for 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 15th in the Roberts and Son Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Herb Berkley of the First Church of the Nazarene officiating. Burial will follow in the Blackwell Cemetery.

Memorials have been established in her honor with Ross Hospice or The Diabetes Association in c/o Roberts and Son Funeral Home, 120 W. Padon, Blackwell, Oklahoma 74631.