Drucilla Fern "Dru" (Hedrick) & Richard Lee Thompson
Tombstone photo
Hillside CemeteryPurcell, McClain County, Oklahoma

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Drucilla Fern "Dru" Thompson

The Purcell Register

February 13, 2003

Submitted by: Jane Yoakum Evans

Funeral services for Drucilla Fern "Dru" Thompson, 86, of Purcell were held at Wilson-Little Funeral Home Chapel on Feb. 11, 2003 with the Rev. Patrick Mead and the Rev. John Reynolds officiating. Interment was in Hillside Cemetery under the direction of Wilson-Little Funeral Home.

She was born Oct. 14, 1916 near Purcell and died Feb. 7, 2003 at Purcell Municipal Hospital. She was the third of five children of Henry Jake Hedrick and Ollie Mae Davis Hedrick. Her family lived in the Payne community and later the Byars community where she attended high school. She married Richard Lee Thompson in Pauls Valley on Aug. 18, 1933.

In 1938, they started McClain Propane and the family business is still in operation after nearly 65 years. For many years the couple had a small ranch where they raised cattle and horses.

Mrs. Thompson was active in the Purcell Round-Up Club for nearly 25 years and an active member of First Baptist Church in Purcell for nearly 56 years, serving as a Sunday school teacher, adult department director and class secretary.

Her husband, Richard preceded her in death in 1983. She was also preceded in death by two sisters, Isabell Jones and Beatrice Gladney; two brothers, Henry and Leon Hedrick and one grandson, Larry Potter.

She is survived by one daughter, Dorothy Potter and her husband, Jerry, of Purcell; one sister-in-law, Wanda Hedrick of California; four grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Ken Carleton, Bill Cole, Leroy Passmore, Alton Dragoo, George Stone and Floyd Laney.

Honorary pallbearers were Elgin Phillips, Coleman Hedrick, Wyman Cheek, Dennis Yoakum, Bill Mainord, Bob Douthit, Perry Nemecek, Don Sherman, Tom Idleman, Ted Idleman, Glen Warner and Bob Barnett.