Mrs. Margaret Booth Thomson, 85, of Maxwell Hill Road, died Saturday, January 12, 1990, at 12:30 a.m., at her residence, following a short illness. Born February 19, 1905, at Sparta, N. C. she was the daughter of the late Harvey George Booth, editor of the local newspaper and the late Margaret Elizabeth “Lizzie” Boothe. In 1919 the family moved to Beckley, where her father worked on the Raleigh Register newspaper and later ran a dairy. The family became active in the First Baptist Church of Beckley. Mrs. Thomson graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1921 and began teaching with the Standard Normal Certificate in the elementary school at Raleigh. Here she met her future husband, Robert Thomson Jr., and was married on may 29, 1931. She attended Emery and Henry College in Emery, Va. For one year, and in 1928 graduated from Carson Newman College in Jefferson City, Tenn. Mrs. Thomson taught 43 years in the Raleigh County School System at the Mabscott Elementary School, the Beckley Junior High School, and the Woodrow Wilson High School. In high school, she taught mathematics, business math and plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. She received her Masters Degree in Guidance Counseling from West Virginia University in 1961, and was Dean of Girls and College Counselor at Woodrow Wilson High School from 1960 to 1971. After the school term, she would join her husband where he was stationed, especially enjoying their stay in Germany, from which they explored Europe together in 1957. Her husband, Robert, retired from the U. S. Army in 1960 as a Colonel. Mrs. Thomson was active in the Beckley area civic affairs, where she was a member of the Womans Club of Beckley, serving as a past president, and was a past Chairman of the fire Arts Department, and was a member of the board of Trustee’s, helped start and keep the impetus for ‘Honey in the Rock’ going, was Co-Chairman of the West Virginia Historical Drama Association, helped start the United Fund drives for the Beckley area, helped start the American Red Cross Blood Mobile in Raleigh County, served on the Steering Committee for the Mountain State Folk Festival, worked to bring the Y. M. C. A. to Beckley, serving on the Board of Directors, and was selected at the outstanding Woman of the Year by the Junior Woman’s Club of Beckley in 1972. She also was a past President of the Chaminade Music club, was a state chairman of the Junior Festivals for the West Virginia Federation of Music Clubs which recognizes artistic talents, was a member of the Delta Kappa Gamma Teachers Honorary Society, was a past President of XI Chapter, was a member of the board of Directors of Citizens Scholarship Foundation, was elected member of the Golden Eagle of Woodrow Wilson High School for the school’s outstanding graduates, was a member of the Raleigh County School Employees Association, the American Association of the Retired persons, the Friends of the Library, and the Shephard Center where she served on the Board of Directors. She was an active member of the First Baptist Church in Beckley, where she was a member, a past president, and a Sunday School teacher for the Fidelis Class, was a circle leader, was a past president of the American Baptist Women of the Church, was a past president of the Raleigh County Association of the American Baptist Women, and was a past president of the church Women United of Raleigh County. Mrs. Thomson enjoyed playing bridge, swimming, and raising flowers, especially roses. With all these activities, she always had time for her family and her numerous friends. Survivors include her husband, Colonel Robert Thomson Jr. of Beckley; a nephew, Dr. Lawrence Thorne of Houston Texas; a niece, Mrs. Kenneth (Margaret Louise) Dilley of Beckley; two great nieces, Kennette Gail Dilley of Beckley; and Janel Thorne of Houston, Tex., and four great nephews, Frank Thorne, Scott Thorne, and Adam Thorne, all of Houston, Tex., and Robert Samuel Dilley of Beckley. Services will be Monday at 1 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Beckley with the Rev. Doctor David Carrico officiating. Entombment will be in the Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens mausoleum No. 3 at Prosperity. Friends may call today from 6. p.m. to 9. p. m. at the Calfee Funeral Home in Beckley and at the church one hour prior to services. Pallbearers will be Ross Hutchens, Vance Miller, Alec Easton, Earl Whitner, Robert Thomson and George Tice.