Lora Iris Thompson, age 72 of Clinton passed away Monday, January 30, 2012 at Clinton Healthcare and Rehab Ctr., Clinton. Memorial services will be 7:00 P.M., Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton. Visitation will be held one hour prior to service. Family suggests memorial contributions to Clinton Healthcare Nurses Fund and can be left in care of Vansant-Mills Funeral Home. Fond memories may be left online at www.vansant-millsfuneralhome.com.

Lora was a C.M.T. working in-home-care and Chastain's and Clinton Healthcare Nursing Homes for 25 years.

She was preceded in death by her husband Noland Thompson in July,2002 and daughter Sheila Gaye McDonald September, 2007.

Survivors include two daughters, Sheri Strouse and Cynthia Ryles both of Clinton; eight grandchildren, Hayli Strouse Beebe, Trent Thompson, Thomas Lamar Strouse II, Trena Wray McDonald, Lora Denise McDonald, Matthew Thompson, Michael McDonald, and Dillon Strouse; fourteen great-grandchildren; and a brother Dale Knisely, Shawnee, Kansas.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Vansant-Mills Funeral Home, Clinton, Missouri.