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Thomas Thompson
1954 - 2025
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1954
DIED
2025
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Thomas Thompson Obituary
May 10, 1954 - Aug 8, 2025
Bellevue
Thomas D. "Tommy" Thompson, 71, of Bellevue, passed away peacefully at home Friday, August 8, 2025, after a long battle with cancer. He was born May 10, 1954, in Sandusky, the son of Joseph E. and Betty (Gurtz) Thompson. Tommy married Jean Yingling February 7, 1981, and they enjoyed 44 years of marriage.
Tommy ran the greenhouses at Ohio Veterans Home in Sandusky until he started Thompson Landscaping and Greenhouses on Catawba Island in 1976. He retired in 2012. He was a member of St. John Lutheran Church, Bellevue and a longtime member of Catawba Island Club. During retirement, in Arizona, he would prepare meals and feed the homeless weekly.
Surviving are his wife: Jean; sons: Tommy (Erin) Thompson of Bellevue, and Nathan Thompson of Catawba Island; grandson, Thomas Benjamin Dale Thompson; brother, Frederick J. (Martha) Thompson of Sandusky; sister, Teresa Thompson of Sandusky; aunts, Marty Polta and Rosie McDowell both of Sandusky; and numerous nieces, nephews and friends.
Tommy's body will be cremated and his cremains will be scattered in Lake Erie at a later date.
Memorial contribu-tions in memory of Tommy may be given to Victory Kitchen, 1613 Hayes Ave. Sandusky, OH 44870.
Online condolences may be shared with the family at www.neideckercrosserpriesman.com
Neidecker, Crosser & Priesman Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Port Clinton, is handling arrangements.
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