SERVICES
Hill & Son Funeral Home
Appleton City, Missouri
Monday May 8, 2006
2:00 PM

MINISTERS
Rev. Ryan Stiffler
Rev. Frank Claiborne

VISITATION
Hill & Son Funeral Home
Appleton City, Missouri
Sunday May 7, 2006
7:00 – 8:00 PM

INTERMENT
Appleton City Cemetery
Appleton City, Missouri

MEMORIAL
First Baptist Church Building Fund

Earl Thomas, son of Ed and Mary (Hurst) Thomas, was born June 27, 1914 near Deepwater, Missouri. He passed away at Ellett Memorial Hospital in Appleton City, Missouri on Saturday May 6, 2006 at the age of 91 years. He spent the early part of his life around Deepwater, where he attended school, accepted Christ as his Savior and united with the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church.
Earl was united in marriage to Winnifred Cockrell in 1940. To this union four children were born, Leslie Earl, Carolyn Sue, Judy and Bobby Gene.
Earl was an auto mechanic for Rotert Bros. in Montrose, he then moved to Appleton City where he worked for D.F. Piepmeier. In 1953 he began working for Fenimore Motors where he worked for more than 31 years.
Earl was preceded in death by his wife, parents, two brothers Alfred and Edgar Thomas, six sisters: Nellie Ford, Ethel Witting, Eva Dunning, Helen McCannon, Myrtle Thomas and Vivine Grubb, one infant granddaughter Susan Denise Thomas and one great granddaughter Kristin Thomas.
He is survived by his four children, Leslie Thomas of Butler, Missouri, Carolyn and husband Bud Lampkin of Raytown, Missouri, Judy and husband Charles Artz of Independence, Missouri, Bobby and wife Peggy Thomas of Butler, Missouri, a sister Audrey Strickland and brother-in-law Robert Grubb, both of Independence, Missouri, five grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews.