Julia Marie Thomas, 86, of Coffeyville and formerly of Prescott, Mound City and LaHarpe died Sunday Aug. 28, 2011, at Windsor Place
in Coffeyville.
She was born Sept. 11, 1924, in Levant, to Joseph and Justina Bruenn Golemboski. She graduated from Colby High School.
She married George Thomas on Dec. 31, 1948, in Colby. He died Nov. 15, 2008.
She was a member of Holy Name Catholic Church in Coffeyville, Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary of LaHarpe and was a farm wife.
She is survived by four sons William “Bill,” Salina, Fredrick and his wife, Phyllis, Salina, Gary, Rhinelander, Wis., and Glenn and his wife, Connie, Colony; four daughters, Janet Rau and her husband, Maurice, Elk City, Ethel McDaniel and her husband, Bill, Carbondale, Wanda Rudiger, Chino Valley, Ariz., and Rose Thomas, Saint Pete Beach, Fla.; a brother, Joe Golemboski, Tulsa, Okla.; four sisters, Marge Sinclair, Jetmore, Dorothy Beckman and Victoria Hume, Wichita, and Betty Sherlock, Saint Francis; 16 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Two brothers, Frank and Edward Golemboski, a sister, Helen Ribordy, and two grandchildren died earlier.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Mound City. Visitation will be from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Coffel-Schneider Funeral Home Pleasanton.
Rosary will be said at 1 p.m. at the Coffel-Schneider Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Sacred Heart Cemetery in Mound City.
Memorials to the Julia Thomas Memorial Fund may be left at the funeral home. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.coffelschneider.com.
Julia Thomas
