Thompsen, Richard (Dick)

June 24, 1945 - July 4, 2023

Preceded in death by his parents Dorothy and Hans Thompsen and his sister and brother-in-law Sue and Leon Svoboda. He's survived by his wife Marjo, his son and wife Jayson and Cathy Thompsen, his daughter Amy Reoh, and grandchildren Jacob, Evan, Carleigh, and Caleb.

Most of his youth was spent in Friend and York, NE. After high school he worked a year in Lincoln for State Farm Insurance before going on to college. He received his undergraduate degree in education from Wayne State and his Master of Administration from UNO. Dick retired from Omaha Public School system in 2000 after 32 years of teaching social studies to middle schoolers. He and Marjo started snow birding in AZ when she retired from OPS a couple years later. They made Scottsdale their permanent home in 2018.

Memorials can be sent to The NE Humane Society or Planned Parenthood.

Published by Omaha World-Herald on Jul. 9, 2023.