2006
Leonora Thomson, 93, a retired secretary who was a lifelong resident of the Washington area, died of congestive heart failure
Nov. 22 at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital. She had lived in Fairfax County.
Mrs. Thomson, a native Washingtonian, graduated from Eastern High School in 1929 and worked at the Woodward and Lothrop department store before becoming a secretary for the General Motors' patent division. She retired in 1973.
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A member of Del Ray United Methodist Church in Alexandria for more than 50 years, Mrs. Thomson was a volunteer with many
of its groups. She also was a reading tutor in the Alexandria schools and for 30 years hosted visiting schoolchildren from
Burlington, Vt., who knew her as Grandma Thomson.
Her husband, Duncan Thomson, died in 1993.
Survivors include her daughter, Phyllis Darrough of Fairfax County, and two grandchildren.