Ferne Thomsen

Forest Park, Ill. Graveside services for Ferne Thomsen, 90, Lawrence, Kan., will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Woodlawn Cemetery, Forest Park.

Mrs. Thomsen died Friday, Sept. 13, 2002, at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Center in Lawrence, Kan.

She was born Sept. 12, 1912, in Forest Park, the daughter of Edward H. and Clara (Dorman) Blatter. She moved to Lawrence, Kan., from Lombard in July 1990.

Mrs. Thomsen attended West Side Presbyterian Church in Lawrence.

She married Fred Thomsen on June 27, 1936, in Elmhurst. He died Feb. 22, 1994.

Survivors include two sons, Fred Thomsen, Wooddale, and Charles Thomsen, Lawrence, Kan.; five grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to Hospice Care of Douglas County, sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary.