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    Melange

    By Thelma Thompson

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    Thelma Thompson, at age 92, is
    the well loved and respected matriarch
    of a very large family. Born in 1919
    in Monticello, Illinois to Luther Gordon
    Thompson and Ida May Harvill
    Thompson, she was brought back
    to Georgia when the marriage didnt
    last. Later, May met a handsome man
    in South Floridas orange groves who
    became Thelmas stepfather. Robert
    Lee Bembry (Bob) was reared on a
    farm in Lee, Florida so eventually the
    family returned there and Bob became
    a happy sharecropper. He and May were the perfect couple, working
    together as a team.
    Thelma was a real bookworm and loved school, Lee Junior High
    was a wonderful school from which she graduated in 34. In 36
    she graduated from Madison High. Shortly thereafter her plan to be
    an old maid school teacher changed completely when she married
    Walter Miclar (Dice) Driggers, a handsome blond Greek God type,
    famous for both his brawn and brain and was known as Tarzan of the
    Withlacoochee. Results of the marriage were eight lovely children.
    Unfortunately though, the marriage ended after 20 years as did a
    second one after nine.
    So, at age 51, with children now on their own, Thelma went
    back to school. She entered North Florida Junior College and earned
    her AA degree in a year and a half with honors, Magna Cum Laude
    and a member of Phi Theta Kappa, also was a contributor to both the
    yearbook and the campus newspaper, thus proving to herself that she
    had not lost her thirst for knowledge.
    At graduation, at which Dr. Thomas Carpenter, President of the
    University of North Florida in Jacksonville, had been invited to speak,
    she was presented with a scholarship by him.
    During the next three years, though her grades were good,
    Thelma was no longer just a bookworm. She jumped into college life,
    with both feet, enjoying it fully. She worked in the office of the Dean
    of Arts and Sciences (he pronounced her indispensable!) until the Dean
    of Student Activities wanted her to be the editor of all publications
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateDec 19, 2011
    ISBN9781467043281
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