Robert "Bobby" Thompson
Burial Details
Obituaries
Unknown - 1935
BODIES OF MRS. GORDON AND BABY THOMPSON FOUND
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Relatives and friends of the late Mrs. Amos Gordon and two-year-old Bobby Thomas were greatly relieved when word came last Saturday afternoon of the finding of their bodies on a sandbar in the Colorado river, three miles below New Castle.
Two young boys were fishing along the river when they ran into the body of a woman, badly decomposed and lodged in some rocks at the head of a sand bar, which was later identified as that of Mrs. Amos Gordon. The lads at once notified people at New Castle who went to rescue the body. The lads only saw the one body, but when a party of men went to view it they found the body of the baby son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Thompson, not more than thirty feet from that of the woman.
Mrs. Gordon and the baby boy were drowned on June 30, last, when a car driven by her husband through the Glenwood [illegible] became out of control and plunged into the then high and raging waters of the Colorado river. Mrs. Gordon was swept away by the swift current before her husband could extract himself from the submerged car, clasping the body of the child tightly to her when last seen by Mr. Gordon. Apparently Mrs. Gordon never released her hold of the child. Intense search for the bodies was kept up for several weeks, a boat having been employed and the islands and sandbars all searched as far down as Rifle, but the bodies, as now revealed, were caught in the rocks under water, and were only revealed when the spring flood went down.
Relatives were at once notified of the finding of the bodies, and they were brought to Glenwood Springs and prepared for burial by the Burdge Mortuary.
Funeral services for both the woman and child were held in Gypsum Sunday afternoon, with Rev. T. B. McDivitt of the local Methodist church delivering the funeral discourse, and a vast throng of sympathizing friends in attendance. Both bodies were laid to rest in Cedar Hill Cemetery at Gypsum, side by side in one grave.
Finding the bodies relieved a great strain from the minds of the bereaved husband and parents and others close to the unfortunate ones.
