Gary Thompson

  Gary LaRay Brumbelow Thompson, our 86 year old precious matriarch, has finished her race. She was called home on June 3, 2025 to hear the words, “Well done, good and faithful servant” and stepped into the arms of her Savior.

  She was born November 28, 1938 in Graham, Texas. Her family then moved to Las Vegas, New Mexico where she was raised with her 4 siblings. At 16 she met the love of her life, Gary Thompson. Yes, that is Gary falling in love with Gary, whom she clung to as her rock until her last breath. Married September 19, 1955, they would be known as “Big Gary” and “Little Gary” for the next 70 years. Soon after marrying, they began their family which has now blossomed into a 50-person family tree.

  She raised 4 girls and 1 son. She taught us to love Jesus, country music, and cherry pie. She spent literally years cooking delicious meals, washing mounds of laundry, assisting with homework, and carting us around to orthodontic and doctor appointments, school drop-off/pickups, and every other task a supermom handles. She used her sharp mind to do numerous bookkeeping jobs throughout her career, with the bulk of it spent working for car dealerships.

  Mom loved shoes, anything that had sparkles, the Cowboys, and Elvis. But more than these, she loved her 13 grandchildren, Dani, Boe, Tye, Kyle, Kaci, Tessa, Chad, Tori, Trace, Tanner, Tucker, Maylin, and Bryce. She poured out her lavish love on them without reserve, doting on them and continuing to repeat the phrase to them that she so often spoke to her children, “I love you more!” She made us all feel like we were the most treasured, beautiful, smartest people on earth. She was so devoted to her grandchildren that she spent her yearly one-week vacation hosting grandkids camp at Grandmama’s house for many summers.

  The family tree burgeoned even more fully with the addition of 18 great-grandchildren most of whom she rocked, held, and serenaded with her infamous, “I love you, a bushel and a peck, a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.”

  She will be fiercely missed by her husband, DeLynn, LaRay, Dan, JoLee, Tracy , their spouses, children and grandchildren. She is our treasure, our blessing, the glue that holds us all together. We do not grieve as those without hope. We celebrate her life knowing that one day we will see her again and all will be well in a place where we will be together forever where there are no more tears, death, or suffering.

  A graveside service will be held 10:00 a.m., Thursday, June 5, 2025, at the Evergreen Cemetery, 9751 Evergreen Cemetery Road, Lipan, Texas 76462.