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Doniphan County's
Marian Thompson
By Lynda
Wheeler, KARSP Community Service
 Marian Louise Thompson began a lifetime of service
to her community by teaching in Sunday School when
she was a freshman in high school. In 1944, at the
age of 17, she began teaching students in a rural
school in Falls City, Nebraska, eventually
specializing in special education. In 1989, after
four sons, seven grandchildren, and a thirty-three
year career, this farm girl turned teacher retired
from formal education. Marian has been a valued
volunteer working with young people and adults in
her community ever since.
To help fill the emptiness after losing James
Elliot, her husband of 59 years, she picked up the
pace of volunteering even more. She is director of
the local food pantry, assists at the Native America
Heritage Museum, manages an after school program for
elementary children, is a story teller at a local
Care Center every week, delivers meals - and
organizes other volunteers to deliver - for Meals on
Wheels, is active in Delta Kappa Gamma, has served
as president for Doniphan County Retired School
Personnel and Highland PRIDE Organization, as well
as starting the Doniphan County Retarded Citizens
Organization and a sheltered workshop in Troy.
When Marian isn’t working with students, working in
some community or church project, or teaching Sunday
School she is exercising at a local fitness center -
approximately 8 to 10 hours a week - and in fact was
part of a walking team that just recently walked
across Kansas and back. DCRSP is indeed fortunate to
have such a valued and dedicated volunteer in its
ranks. Thank you Marian!
Lynda Wheeler, KARSP Community
Service – August 2008
Kansas Association of Retired School Personnel
515 Kansas Ave., Ste 201.
Topeka, KS 66603-3415
Phone: 785-232-8788
K.A.R.S.P@hotmail.com
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