THOMPSON, Terrence A. "Terry"

bluemountaineagle.com 5 Feb 2013 ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Terrence A. “Terry” Thompson, 66, formerly of Prairie City and John Day, died Jan. 20 in Anchorage, Alaska. Mr. Thompson was born June 25, 1946, in Leonard, N.D., to Lloyd and June Thompson. He spent his childhood in Hood River, where he married his first wife, Barbara Frederick in 1965. They moved to Nampa, Idaho, to attend Northwest Nazarene College, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in music education. He taught music at Prairie City School (1969-71) and at Grant District No. 3 schools (1971-76), among other locations. He met and married Kathy Fitzpatrick in 1977, in Portland. In 1981 they moved to Kansas City, Kans., to attend the Nazarene Theological Seminary, where he graduated with a master’s degree in religious education in 1984. The family moved to Veneta where he was bi-vocational pastor, teaching for Crow Applegate (1984-94), while preaching at the Crow Grange Hall. He and the congregation built the Crow Applegate Church of the Nazarene from the ground up, and continued to lead until fall 1995. They moved to Anchorage where he pastored at Jewel Lake Church of the Nazarene until 2005. He worked at Grace Christian until his retirement in 2009 due to dementia. Survivors include his wife, Kathy Thompson; children, Tonja Ferguson, Todd Thompson, Kyle Thompson, Terrence Kordel Thompson and Kathryn Thompson; grandchildren, James Ferguson, Raelynn and Jerin Thompson; sister, Roberta Mottram; and numerous family members and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, Lloyd and June Thompson.