Greensboro Daily News (NC)
16 October 1936
MRS. THOMPSON DIES AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
Daughter of Rear Admiral Scales Had Made Home in Greensboro 10 Years
FUNERAL RITES TODAY
Mrs. Albert Lee Thompson, Jr., of Hamilton Lakes, died early Thursday morning at Wesley Long hospital after illness of a few days with pneumonia.
Funeral service will be conducted at 4 o'clock this afternoon at Holy Trinity Episcopal church, of which Mrs. Thompson was a member, by the rector, Rev. Robert E. Roe. The body will leave Greensboro on Southern Train No. 32 at 10:53 o'clock tonight for Washington. The concluding service will be held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning at the grave in Congressional Cemetery in Washington under the leadership of Chaplain Sidney K. Evans, United States navy.
Surviving Mrs. Thompson are her husband and son, Archibald Scales Thompson, of Greensboro, and two sisters, Mrs. Albert George Cook, Jr., and Mrs. Frederick L. Riddle, whose husbands are lieutenant commanders in the United States navy.
Before her marriage Mrs. Thompson was Miss Effie Scales, daughter of Rear Admiral Archibald Henderson Scales and the late Mrs. Scales. Mrs. Thompson is descended from a long line of colonial ancestry on both sides of the family. Her paternal grandfather was Col. Junius Irving Scales and she was a grand-niece of Gov. Alfred M. Scales, who was the state's chief executive during the four years beginning in January 1885. She also was a lineal descendant of Chief Justice Leonard Henderson, of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
On her mother's side Mrs. Thompson was a granddaughter of Maj. Gen. William Montrose Graham, of the United States army; a great-granddaughter of Col. James Duncan Graham, of the United States engineering corps; a great-great-granddaughter of Dr. William Montrose Graham, of Prince William county, Virginia, and of John Graham, of Williamsburg, Va.
During the last 10 years, following Rear Admiral Scales' retirement from active service, Mrs. Thompson hade lived in Greensboro.
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