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MICHAEL S. THOMPSON died on Thursday, June 3, 2004 at the age of 76. He was born on February 20, 1928 in London, England, the son of the British Ambassador, Sir Geoffrey H. Thompson, and his American wife, Louise C. Sewall. Educated at Andover and Harvard, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, Michael Thompson went on to a career in the US Army, State Department, and Central Intelligence Agency. He served abroad in Morocco, the Congo, Algeria, Belgium, and Italy, and received the Distinguished Intelligence Medal upon his retirement in 1988. He then worked for the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress for six years, before moving to Charlottesville, VA where he studied painting at the Beverley Street School in Staunton. Although most of his time was devoted to his painting, he was also on the Board of the Virginia Center for the Book and an active member of the Charlottesville Committee on Foreign Relations. He is survived by his wife of forty-six years, Beverley; three sons, Christopher, Peter, and Richard; five grandchildren, Tony, Kaelyne, Megan, Darcy, and Rohan; and his sister, Christie Hochschild. The Washington Post, June 8, 2004.

THOMPSON, ROBERT N., 84, of Homosassa, died Saturday (March 4, 2006) in Hospice House of Citrus County Lecanto. Born in Peshtigo. Wis., he came here in 1986 from Fort Lauderdale. He was a vice-president for Chris Craft Corporation and had been a boat builder with Thompson Boat Manufacturing. He was a member of the Sugarmill Woods Golf Club. Survivors include his wife of 61 years. Genevieve “Gay” (Sewall); a daughter, Barbara Chenoweth, Boulder, Colo; a son, Bruce, Ithaca, N.Y; a brother, Ted, Homer. N.Y; a sister, Gail Dumke, Peshtigo; six grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.³

Mrs Rachel F Thomson Sewall, 84, widow of Mark W. Sewall, died early Wednesday morning at her home, 1127 Washington street following about a year of poor health. She was born in Richmond. Dec. 6, 1867, a daughter of Joseph A. and Rachel Hathorn Thomson. She attended Bath schools and passed two years at Miss Morgan's school in Portsmouth, N.H. Many times she accompanied her father, Capt. Joseph A. Thomson and her mother, on sea voyages aboard Capt. Thomson's vessels, including a number of trips around Cape Horn and experienced several hazardous voyages.
Jan. 1, 1890, in Bath, she married Mr. Sewall and has made her home here since that time Surviving are three sons, Don and Joseph of Boothbay Harbor and Edward Sewall of Bath; four grandchildren, Patricia Pillsbury of Hanson, Mass., Edward Sewall Jr., of South Weymouth, Mass., Mark Warren Sewall of Winchester, Mass., and Joseph Thomson Sewall Jr. serving in the U.S. Army.
Funeral services will be Saturday afternon at two from the home on Washington street with Rev. Canon Charles M. Tubbs officiating and burial will be in the family lot at Oak Grove. Friends are asked to omit flowers. Bath Independent, May 15, 1952.¹