OBITUARY "M Thornton Passed Away at Age of 84 Years.
Michael Thornton, 84, died suddenly at his Lexington farm home last Thursday as a result of a heart ailment that had afflicted him for some time. He is survived by his wife, Mary, and five children: Evelyn (Mrs. Felix Lang), Alice (Mrs. Theo Balke, Jr.[Bolke]) Michael, Thomas and Jaequeline. Rev. Father Foy of St. Thomas sang the Requiem High Mass at St. Mary's Church, Le Center, on Monday morning, April 14.
Michael Thornton was born on June 7, 1862, on a farm in Tyrone Township, the youngest son of John and Ann Thornton. His parents moved to Lexington while he was a child, and he spent a great part of his life on the farm there. In 1901 he moved to Montgomery where he operated a saloon until 1903, when he returned to the farm. On October 22, 1912, he was married to Mary Malinski of Lexington; and in 1917 they moved into Le Center. They lived there until 1940, at which time he and his family returned to the farm in Lexington. Michael Thornton possessed an arrestng personality, the paramount features of which was his conversational ability. He was born with a gift of speech and used it well. He was never too busy to stop and exchange a thousand or so words with a casual passer-by. As a raconteur,his equal was difficult to find, and his stories lost none of their freshness through repetition. He possessed a hyperbolean humor and the exaggeration only increased his listeners' interest and enjoyment. In argument, he was like a child on a see-saw, he could choose either side and still enjoy himself.
Intimate friends might wish that his little finger be preserved for posterity; for in his more braggadacio moments he was want to assert that that finger possessed more legal, agricultural, religeous, medicinal, etc. knowledge that that to which any lawyer, farmer, priest, doctor could ever lay claim. Listening to him, one was half-inclined to believe it. He had an innate belief that his personality could overcome everything except the part of its own superiority. A somewhat dangerous premise; but, strange to say, it endeared him the more to those who knew him.
But he was not all conservation [conversation]. The kindness and solicitude he evinced toward his family, the numerous persons whom he aided and befriended in their need, his open-handedness and generosity of heart will always be remembered by those with whom he came into contact.
He was buried in the family lot in the St. Thomas parish cemetery. Pallbearers were his nephews: John T. Lyons of St. Paul, Ed Lyons of Minneapolis, Wm Dynes and Richard Loftus of Montgomery, and Joseph and James Malinski of Le Center. St. Mary's church was filled at his funeral; a fact he would have appreciated, for he loved to have people around him."
SOURCE: Le Center Leader, dated April 17, 1947. Contributed by: M.L. Ihrke
Michael Thornton, 84, died suddenly at his Lexington farm home last Thursday as a result of a heart ailment that had afflicted him for some time. He is survived by his wife, Mary, and five children: Evelyn (Mrs. Felix Lang), Alice (Mrs. Theo Balke, Jr.[Bolke]) Michael, Thomas and Jaequeline. Rev. Father Foy of St. Thomas sang the Requiem High Mass at St. Mary's Church, Le Center, on Monday morning, April 14.
Michael Thornton was born on June 7, 1862, on a farm in Tyrone Township, the youngest son of John and Ann Thornton. His parents moved to Lexington while he was a child, and he spent a great part of his life on the farm there. In 1901 he moved to Montgomery where he operated a saloon until 1903, when he returned to the farm. On October 22, 1912, he was married to Mary Malinski of Lexington; and in 1917 they moved into Le Center. They lived there until 1940, at which time he and his family returned to the farm in Lexington. Michael Thornton possessed an arrestng personality, the paramount features of which was his conversational ability. He was born with a gift of speech and used it well. He was never too busy to stop and exchange a thousand or so words with a casual passer-by. As a raconteur,his equal was difficult to find, and his stories lost none of their freshness through repetition. He possessed a hyperbolean humor and the exaggeration only increased his listeners' interest and enjoyment. In argument, he was like a child on a see-saw, he could choose either side and still enjoy himself.
Intimate friends might wish that his little finger be preserved for posterity; for in his more braggadacio moments he was want to assert that that finger possessed more legal, agricultural, religeous, medicinal, etc. knowledge that that to which any lawyer, farmer, priest, doctor could ever lay claim. Listening to him, one was half-inclined to believe it. He had an innate belief that his personality could overcome everything except the part of its own superiority. A somewhat dangerous premise; but, strange to say, it endeared him the more to those who knew him.
But he was not all conservation [conversation]. The kindness and solicitude he evinced toward his family, the numerous persons whom he aided and befriended in their need, his open-handedness and generosity of heart will always be remembered by those with whom he came into contact.
He was buried in the family lot in the St. Thomas parish cemetery. Pallbearers were his nephews: John T. Lyons of St. Paul, Ed Lyons of Minneapolis, Wm Dynes and Richard Loftus of Montgomery, and Joseph and James Malinski of Le Center. St. Mary's church was filled at his funeral; a fact he would have appreciated, for he loved to have people around him."
SOURCE: Le Center Leader, dated April 17, 1947. Contributed by: M.L. Ihrke
OBITUARY "M Thornton Passed Away at Age of 84 Years.
Michael Thornton, 84, died suddenly at his Lexington farm home last Thursday as a result of a heart ailment that had afflicted him for some time. He is survived by his wife, Mary, and five children: Evelyn (Mrs. Felix Lang), Alice (Mrs. Theo Balke, Jr.[Bolke]) Michael, Thomas and Jaequeline. Rev. Father Foy of St. Thomas sang the Requiem High Mass at St. Mary's Church, Le Center, on Monday morning, April 14.
Michael Thornton was born on June 7, 1862, on a farm in Tyrone Township, the youngest son of John and Ann Thornton. His parents moved to Lexington while he was a child, and he spent a great part of his life on the farm there. In 1901 he moved to Montgomery where he operated a saloon until 1903, when he returned to the farm. On October 22, 1912, he was married to Mary Malinski of Lexington; and in 1917 they moved into Le Center. They lived there until 1940, at which time he and his family returned to the farm in Lexington. Michael Thornton possessed an arrestng personality, the paramount features of which was his conversational ability. He was born with a gift of speech and used it well. He was never too busy to stop and exchange a thousand or so words with a casual passer-by. As a raconteur,his equal was difficult to find, and his stories lost none of their freshness through repetition. He possessed a hyperbolean humor and the exaggeration only increased his listeners' interest and enjoyment. In argument, he was like a child on a see-saw, he could choose either side and still enjoy himself.
Intimate friends might wish that his little finger be preserved for posterity; for in his more braggadacio moments he was want to assert that that finger possessed more legal, agricultural, religeous, medicinal, etc. knowledge that that to which any lawyer, farmer, priest, doctor could ever lay claim. Listening to him, one was half-inclined to believe it. He had an innate belief that his personality could overcome everything except the part of its own superiority. A somewhat dangerous premise; but, strange to say, it endeared him the more to those who knew him.
But he was not all conservation [conversation]. The kindness and solicitude he evinced toward his family, the numerous persons whom he aided and befriended in their need, his open-handedness and generosity of heart will always be remembered by those with whom he came into contact.
He was buried in the family lot in the St. Thomas parish cemetery. Pallbearers were his nephews: John T. Lyons of St. Paul, Ed Lyons of Minneapolis, Wm Dynes and Richard Loftus of Montgomery, and Joseph and James Malinski of Le Center. St. Mary's church was filled at his funeral; a fact he would have appreciated, for he loved to have people around him."
SOURCE: Le Center Leader, dated April 17, 1947. Contributed by: M.L. Ihrke
Michael Thornton, 84, died suddenly at his Lexington farm home last Thursday as a result of a heart ailment that had afflicted him for some time. He is survived by his wife, Mary, and five children: Evelyn (Mrs. Felix Lang), Alice (Mrs. Theo Balke, Jr.[Bolke]) Michael, Thomas and Jaequeline. Rev. Father Foy of St. Thomas sang the Requiem High Mass at St. Mary's Church, Le Center, on Monday morning, April 14.
Michael Thornton was born on June 7, 1862, on a farm in Tyrone Township, the youngest son of John and Ann Thornton. His parents moved to Lexington while he was a child, and he spent a great part of his life on the farm there. In 1901 he moved to Montgomery where he operated a saloon until 1903, when he returned to the farm. On October 22, 1912, he was married to Mary Malinski of Lexington; and in 1917 they moved into Le Center. They lived there until 1940, at which time he and his family returned to the farm in Lexington. Michael Thornton possessed an arrestng personality, the paramount features of which was his conversational ability. He was born with a gift of speech and used it well. He was never too busy to stop and exchange a thousand or so words with a casual passer-by. As a raconteur,his equal was difficult to find, and his stories lost none of their freshness through repetition. He possessed a hyperbolean humor and the exaggeration only increased his listeners' interest and enjoyment. In argument, he was like a child on a see-saw, he could choose either side and still enjoy himself.
Intimate friends might wish that his little finger be preserved for posterity; for in his more braggadacio moments he was want to assert that that finger possessed more legal, agricultural, religeous, medicinal, etc. knowledge that that to which any lawyer, farmer, priest, doctor could ever lay claim. Listening to him, one was half-inclined to believe it. He had an innate belief that his personality could overcome everything except the part of its own superiority. A somewhat dangerous premise; but, strange to say, it endeared him the more to those who knew him.
But he was not all conservation [conversation]. The kindness and solicitude he evinced toward his family, the numerous persons whom he aided and befriended in their need, his open-handedness and generosity of heart will always be remembered by those with whom he came into contact.
He was buried in the family lot in the St. Thomas parish cemetery. Pallbearers were his nephews: John T. Lyons of St. Paul, Ed Lyons of Minneapolis, Wm Dynes and Richard Loftus of Montgomery, and Joseph and James Malinski of Le Center. St. Mary's church was filled at his funeral; a fact he would have appreciated, for he loved to have people around him."
SOURCE: Le Center Leader, dated April 17, 1947. Contributed by: M.L. Ihrke
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