PVT Don L. Thompson
1918 – 2005
USAR
WWII
 
 

Don Leonard Thompson was born on June 15, 1918, in Palatine, to Nordahl and Bertha (Torgler) Thompson.

Following his graduation from Palatine High School in 1936, he attended Northwestern University taking classes in business administration.

He married Frances Buesching on June 15, 1940 in Lake Zurich; they raised two children.

Thompson served in the U.S. Army from Aug. 20, 1943 to Dec. 7, 1945; he was among the 36,000 soldiers wounded at the Battle of Okinawa. He was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.

He became a partner in Business Stationers and had the Master Addressers Company franchise for the Chicago area.

Thompson was a super-volunteer. He was a member of the Barrington Area Council on Aging and was in the Senior Citizen's Hall of Fame for service. He was a Past Commander of the VFW Barrington Memorial Post 7706, and a member of American Legion Barrington Post 158. He was a volunteer at North Chicago VA Medical Center, where he served 4,189 hours and 20 years of service to veterans in the VA Volunteer Program.

Private Don L. Thompson passed away May 22, 2005, in Barrington. He is buried with his wife at Evergreen Cemetery.

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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution