Mable Lee (Peebles) Thompson, age 93, passed away June 1, 2018. Mable was born January 5, 1925 in Snyder, Arkansas. She was one of 11 daughters and 2 sons born to Baxter Peebles and Alberta Billups-Hood. Mable grew up and attended school in Desha County, AR. She was an ambitious child who always sought to do better in life. The year was 1944 and at 19 years old, Mable relocated to Kansas City, MO and temporarily lived with her two older sisters, Elizabeth Peebles (Mathis) and Carrie Peebles (Wallace). During this period of time she developed a strong work ethic and diligently performed a range of jobs within the hotel industry. This was both in the housekeeping and kitchen departments. She also began learning skills as a caregiver while aiding senior tenants. She went on to work for various healthcare related providers as well as private patient assistant institutions.

Kansas City, MO is also where Mable met her husband Floyd Thompson, Sr. through an acquaintance of her sister Carrie. She married Floyd, Sr. on December 14, 1946 and 10 children were born to this marriage. Mable had a life's goal for her children and was fiercely protective of them as well as selective about who could discipline them. She was a very supportive mother who strived to provide her children with her ideas of ambition, along with giving them everything that she never had. While she was modestly educated, Mable was determined that her children would get the best education and opportunities available to her. With that in mind, she enrolled her kids in Catholic Parochial Schools and encouraged all her children, as well as her grandchildren to seek higher educational. She worked night and day to pay tuition and expenses. This resulted in several of them achieving college degrees fostering professional, supervisory and executive employment positions. Mable was proud of her children and loved to converse about them.

Mable was the wife of an U.S. Army veteran, and had sons who also served in the Army and a grandson in the USAF. She was a good American and taught her children to speak up for fairness during the time period when our country struggled for equal rights. Mable fearlessly demanded justice and pressed you to stand up for yourself. She was quick to speak out against something that she thought was wrong but equally compassionate to subsequently forgive those who wronged her.

If you were not closely acquainted with Mable then you really missed an opportunity to know someone very special. She was a generous and helpful person. After Mable had gotten established in her residence located at 3511 Brooklyn in Kansas City, she shared her house with siblings while they were looking for their own homes. Her brother-in-law, the late Pastor Willie Graham and sister, Ruth Peebles were also married in Mable's home. Mable loved her sisters very much and enjoyed talking on the telephone with them daily along with other relatives especially Gloria Cox. She pushed her children to attend the Hood Peebles Reunions to bring them closer to other family members. Mable enjoyed attending family reunions herself and also liked going to periodic family gatherings held at 3300 Michigan KCMO where her sisters, Elisabeth and Gladys lived.

Worth noting is that Mable was a member of Faith Mission Church (FMC) and attended services often when she was physically able. When she couldn't get a ride to FMC she would attend services at Trinity Temple Church as well as Bannister Road Baptist Church with her daughters Yvonne and Linda. She also enjoyed dressing up for church and wearing her jewelry. She especially loved the freedom of driving her own Cadillac automobile where ever she wanted to go. Shortly after her 88th birthday she moved in with her eldest daughter Yvonne and eventually stopped driving. However, she did not stop giving her independent opinions and spoke her mind without reservation. Mable was a strong independent person most of her life and continued to be active in a number of things through her 90th birthday. She traveled, danced at family reunions, went bowling and attended sporting events up to age 92.

Mable loved to go fishing, especially with her sisters. Sometimes she would join her neighbor, Raymond Thomas at a favorite "James A Reed Lake" fishing hole. She liked talking about all the fish she caught and letting people know where the best fishing spots were. Another activity Mable did often was gardening. She spent many-a-day tending the rows of vegetables she grew in her backyard.

Mable was the family's conscience and matriarch. Even at her advanced age she remained an independent thinker and decision maker all the way through her final physical debilitation. She was a marvelous and unique creation of God. Mable had a beautiful dimpled smile that could warm your heart. She loved the idea of having a close-knit family and adopted her daughters-in-law and sons-in-law as her own children showering them with much love.

Mable meant so much to her family and will be sorely missed. Her life's history was so rich that it is hard to limit it to these loving words.

Mable was preceded in death by her husband Floyd, Sr.; sons Floyd Jr., Victor, Dwight and Michael Sr.; two brothers Earl and Simmie; six sisters Elizabeth, Carrie, Sarah, Eleaner, Rosie and Jeffrey-Tea.

She leaves behind to cherish her memory: three sons, three daughters, a daughter-in-law and a son-in-law, Lloyd Cliff Thompson (Marilyn), Timothy Thompson and Roger Thompson, Sr.; Yvonne Thompson, Linda Durham (Albert) and Leslie Thompson; 21 grandchildren, 4 grandsons-in-law and 2 granddaughters-in-law, LaNita Raney, Laura Thompson, Kimberly Starr, Lakeisha Doyal-Runnels (William), Alicia Benazzi (David), Teresha Franklin, Thomas Franklin, Tysaiah Franklin, Leilani Kernal (Iman), Reonda Thompson, Renesha Thompson, Rakesha Thompson-King, Roger Thompson II, Kenda Hardin (Felix), Jamilla Coleman (Marcus), Shaniece Thompson, Kevin Thompson, Anthony Thompson, Chanelle Smith, Mickelle Thompson and Michael Thompson II (Melaney); 51 great grandchildren; four sisters, Gladys Peebles, Ruth Graham, Juanita Cooks and Deloris Hampton all of Kansas City, MO; and over three hundred other relatives consisting the Peoples, Peebles, Hood and Beal families, along with her church family and numerous friends.