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John A. Thompson \u2013 54 \u2013 of 5 Maple Ridge, Almond, NY, died Tuesday evening (January 7, 2020) at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, as a result of injuries sustained in a one-car accident on December 13, 2019.<\/p>\nJohn A. Thompson \u2013 54 \u2013 of 5 Maple Ridge, Almond, NY, died Tuesday evening (January 7, 2020) at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, as a result of injuries sustained in a one-car accident on December 13, 2019.<\/p>\n
Born in Hornell on January 5, 1966, he was the son of Dale & Cora (Mills) Thompson.<\/p>\n
John grew up in Almond where he attended Alfred-Almond Central School.\u00a0 He resided in Shallotte, NC for about 2 years where he attended Shallotte High School during his freshman & sophomore years.\u00a0\u00a0 He returned to Almond where he graduated from Alfred-Almond Central School (class of 1985).\u00a0 He later received his Associate\u2019s Degree in Land Surveying from Alfred State College (SUNY Alfred).<\/p>\n
For several years he was employed as a land surveyor for Passero Surveying Company of Rochester.\u00a0 More recently, he worked as a surveyor for Ravi Engineering & Surveying of Rochester.<\/p>\n
John had been a member of Alfred Station 7th<\/sup> Day Baptist Church.\u00a0 He was a \u201cdie hard\u201d Buffalo Bills fan and in his younger years enjoyed hunting.\u00a0 John had a love of music and especially enjoyed playing classic rock and country music REALLY LOUD<\/strong>!!!\u00a0 One of John\u2019s favorite pastimes was simply watching vintage TV shows such as Hogan\u2019s Heroes, MASH, Star Trek & Bonanza.\u00a0 He also loved watching old western movies, especially John Wayne movies.<\/p>\n In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother, Sam Thompson.<\/p>\n John was married on July 22, 1989 to the former Martha Biehl who survives.\u00a0 Also surviving are 3 daughters, Cora (Josh Ritenburg) Thompson of Dansville, Tamara (Michael) Chaffee of Wellsville and Patricia (Chris) Patterson of Hornell; 3 sisters, Lisa (Robert) Prisco of Bath, ME, Debbie Thompson of Hornell and Amy (Dan) Mack of Cuba, NY; 1 brother, George (Michelle) Thompson of Clarksville, TN; 6 grandchildren; 2 step-grandchildren; several nieces & nephews.<\/p>\n The family of John A. Thompson will receive friends on Monday from 4:00 PM \u2013 7:00 PM at the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY <\/strong>where a Funeral Service will be held on Tuesday at 12:00 Noon with Pastor Ken Chroniger officiating.\u00a0 Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Almond, NY.<\/p>\n John\u2019s family request that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in his name be made to the Alfred Station 7th<\/sup> Day Baptist Church, PO Box 7777, Alfred Station, NY 14803.\u00a0 Memorial forms will be available at the Dagon Funeral Home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John A. Thompson \u2013 54 \u2013 of 5 Maple Ridge, Almond, NY, died Tuesday evening (January 7, 2020) at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, as a result of injuries sustained in a one-car accident on December 13, 2019. Born in Hornell on January 5, 1966, he was the son of Dale & Cora (Mills) Thompson. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}