WINONA, Minn. – Allen Robert Thompson, age 93, who retired to Winona in 1993 after a career as a retail store manager, died at Watkins Manor nursing home. He grew up in Wyattville and was a 1948 graduate of Lewiston High School. He worked at Eustermann’s Auto and Implement in Lewiston, then entered the U.S. Army for duty in the Korean conflict. He was a manager for the C.R. Anthony department store in Spring Valley and later at Iowa stores in Humboldt, Eagle Grove and Webster City. In Humboldt he was president of the Chamber of Commerce. In 1983 he joined he Bethel Seminary in Arden Hills as postal coordinator. At Pleasant Valley Church in Winona, he was in the Wordsmiths group and wrote three books for family and friends about his life experiences and observations.
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