Floral Bearers Friends of the Family

Pall Bearers Friends of the Family

Acknowledgment

In Grateful Appreciation

We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all of you for every kind expression we have received during our time of bereavement. You have made this burden easier to bear by just being there for us. We pray God’s continued

Blessings upon each of you.

~The Family

Dear Daddy,

I miss you and I love you. I’m grateful for all the things

you got me and for putting a roof over my head. I know

there’s an angel over my head and the angel is you.

I will always try to be good and make all straight A’s and

B’s to make you proud. I am always going to love you.

I will not give my mom hard times and I will look after my

brother. Everybody loves you too daddy, you are all they

talk about because they loved you and they are going to

miss you. I will always love you daddy.

Love Milli, Your Princess

Professional Services Entrusted To:

Knotts Funeral Home 719 Wall Street

Sanford, North Carolina 27330 Phone: (919) 776-4345 / Fax: (919) 776-0911

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L O N G

L I V E

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The Celebration of Life In Loving Memory of

Alpha Omega December 16, 1989 August 25, 2019

Saturday, August 31, 2019

12:00 PM

Blandonia Presbyterian Church 605 Wall Street

Sanford, NC 27330

CRE Allen McLean, Pastor

Rev. Mamie L. Hooker, Eulogist

Order of Service

Prelude

Processional…………………………….Clergy & Family

Musical Selection

Scriptures: Old Testament: Psalm 23………….Minister Angela Jones New Testament: 1Corinthians 15:50-58….Rev. Iris Jordan

Prayer of Comfort

Solo…………………………….….Minister Angela Jones

Reflections Please limit 2 Minutes ……...…Family and Friends

Acknowledgements Obituary (Read Silently)

Solo…………………………………….....Rev. Iris Jordan

Eulogy……………………………..Rev. Mamie L. Hooker

Musical Selection

Recessional

Interment Lee Memory Garden

Sanford, North Carolina

Obituary

Eric Andre Thompson, Jr., age 29, was born on December 16,

1989 in Livingston, NJ to Tonya Yvette Wilson and Eric Andre

Thompson, Sr. He entered into life everlasting on August 25, 2019.

Eric was baptized on May 10, 1992 at Elmwood Presbyterian

Church in East Orange, NJ. When the family relocated to Sanford,

NC in 1999, he became a member at Blandonia Presbyterian

Church in Sanford, NC where he was active in the Blandonia Youth

Group and the Drama Club. He attended JR Ingram Elementary

School, West Lee Middle School, Lee Senior High School (briefly)

and graduated from Southern Lee in 2009. He received an

Associate Degree in Business Administration from Central Carolina

Community College in 2017.

Eric enjoyed playing basketball which he played throughout

Middle School and High School, traveling, spending time with his

children, his family and friends and being “the life of the party”. He

was known to have the ability to charm anybody he came in contact

with. He was truly one of a kind.

Eric was preceded in death by his father Eric Andre Thompson, Sr.

Eric is survived by his children, Amilliyana and Zyir Thompson

of Sanford; mother, Tonya Wilson, Linden, NC; mother of his

children, Valencia Rosemond, Sanford, NC; grandmother,

Rev. Mamie L. Hooker (Papa Wayne), Sanford, NC; sisters, Tamika

Thompson, Sanford, NC, Tamaiya and Jvonna Fleming, Linden,

NC; brothers, Jahid Thompson, Christopher and Elijah McCormick,

Keith Williams, Anthony Thompson (JR), Dave Seagroves, Travis

Bellamy, Kevin, and Tank; aunt, Gayle McKoy (Crainza), Sanford,

NC., cousins, Shakira Saziru, Rory Brown, and Cameron Alexander;

niece, MaKenzy Battle; nephew, Jalik McLean, and a host of other

loved ones and friends.

The Dash Poem “I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend.

He referred to the dates on their tombstone from the beginning…to the end.

He noted that first came the date of birth and spoke of the following date with tears, but he said what

mattered most of all was the dash between those years.

For that dash represents all the time that they spent alive on earth. And now only those who loved them know

what that little line is worth.

For it matters not, how much we own, the cars…the house…the cash. What matters is how we live

and love and how we spend our dash.