Thompson, Joseph V.: 6/1994

CARLISLE Joseph V. Thompson Jr., 77, of 536 Highland Ave., a former business manager, co-owner and publisher of The Evening Sentinel, died yesterday in Hershey Medical Center.

 

He became publisher of the paper after its sale to Howard Publications in 1968 and served in that capacity until 1974. Also, he was retired from the state Department of Public Welfare.

 

He was a Navy veteran of World War II; a former treasurer and trustee of the First Presbyterian Church; past president of the Greater Carlisle Area United Way, the Carlisle Kiwanis Club and the Carlisle Band Boosters; a former director of the Greater Carlisle Area Chamber of Commerce; a former treasurer of the alumni association of Dickinson College's Kappa Sigma fraternity; and a former trustee of the Carlisle YMCA and Bosler Free Library.

 

He was a volunteer and docent for the Cumberland County Historical Society and a member of the Carlisle Salvation Army Advisory Board, the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association, the Central Cumberland County Advisory Board of the former CCNB Bank, and the Old Towne Run Mountain Lodge.

 

Surviving are his wife, Jean Morrette Thompson; four sons, Joseph V. III of Vestal, N.Y., Michael W. of Dover, Mass., and Charles E., a staff writer for The Patriot-News, and Arthur M., both of Carlisle; a sister, Mary E. Lefkowski of Carlisle; and five grandchildren.

 

Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in Westminster Cemetery, North Middleton Twp. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in his church.

 

Visitation will follow the memorial service at the church.

 

Hoffman-Roth Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

 

Memorial contributions may be made to his church, 1A N. Hanover St., Carlisle 17013.1