Shirley Jean Thompson, age 84, of Honaker, Virginia, passed away on Sunday (December 26, 2021) in Lebanon, Virginia. Born June 3, 1937 in Russell County, Virginia, she was a daughter of the late George and Julie Honaker Harris. A lifelong resident of the area, she was a graduate of Honaker High School and was an employee of Four County Transit for twenty years. She loved attending church and was a member of Tunnel Hill Freewill Baptist Church, where she loved teaching Sunday School. She enjoyed cooking and crocheting, but most of all spending time with her family.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Joe W. Thompson, two brothers, Odum Harris and Norman Harris, and six sisters, Flossie Harris, Irene Owens, Ellen Lockhart, Odessa Musick, Gladie Belcher, and Christina Meade. In her generation, she was the last surviving member of her immediate family.
Survivors include two sons, Clinton Thompson and wife, Johnnie Belinda of Rosedale, Virginia, and Jack Emory Thompson and wife, Amma Lou of Honaker, Virginia; one daughter Julie Cochran and husband, Jeff of Greenville, South Carolina; three grandchildren, Cassie Reynolds, Zachary Cochran, and Adam Thompson and wife, Anna; one great-grandchild, Katie Reynolds; several nieces and nephews also survive.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 PM Friday at the Honaker Funeral home Chapel in Honaker, Virginia with Rev. Larry Robinson officiating. Interment will follow in the Ketron Memorial Gardens, Lebanon, Virginia.
The family will receive friends after 6:00 PM Thursday at the Honaker Funeral Home.
Relatives and friends will serve as pallbearers.