Junice A. Thompson

Junice Adella (Tjorstad) Thompson, age 98, of Mankato, died on Saturday, November 30, 2019 at Ecuman Pathstone Crossing in Mankato.

A memorial service will be held in the spring of 2020. Mankato Mortuary is assisting the family with arrangements.

Junice was born on July 17, 1921 in Minneapolis, MN and adopted by Jacob and Anna (Stone) Tjorstad. She attended school in Melrose, WI and graduated high school in 1939. After high school, Junice attended Lacrosse State College for one year and then graduated from Michael Reese School of Nursing in Chicago. She worked there until entered the Army WWII Nurse Corps and serviced until the end of the war. Junice married John Thompson on March 18, 1945 while in the service. They lived in Hixton and Milltown, Wisconsin area until 1955. Then they lived in both Mankato and North Mankato, MN. She continued her nursing career at Immanuel St. Joseph Hospital and retired in 1981. After retirement, John and Junice wintered in Texas.

She is survived by her daughters, Janet (Douglas) Meyer of San Antonio, TX and Joyce Nelson of Puyallup, WA; sons, Jerry (Jane) Thompson of Bemidji, MN and Marty (Diane) Thompson of North Mankato; eight grandchildren, Jacob (Ester) Thompson, Jessica Thompson, Jeffery (Heidi) Thompson, Jill (Joel) Gordon, Ben (Steph) Thompson, Becca Thompson (fiancé, Brett), Ryan Nelson, and Caitlin Nelson (fiancé, John); and eight great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, John; and foster brother, Lloyd Peterson.