The Wilmington News Journal ,
Monday, May 27, 1957 reported that at Rehoboth
in the VIA clubhouse, twenty pupils
of Mrs. Blanch Thompson, piano teacher of
Rehoboth Beach staged a recital last
Friday night. How many Rehoboth folks remember
Blanch Greenley Blackstons
Thompason ? She payed piano and organ at many weddings,
funerals and special occasions
during the 1940's, 1950's and up to the '70's or later. Blanch
was born in Millsboro to Ernest
Coward Blackstone , a Millsboro druggist and his wife,
Maud Edda Blackston , April 30,
1909.
On November 8, 1933 she and Leon
Leslie Thompson were married in Wilmington,
Delaware. They had two sons ,
Ernest Blackston Thompson, born 1934, and I think\
his name was George, probably born
in early 1940's .
Leon Leslie Thompson, best known
around Rehoboth as “Blub” was born in Laurel on
11 June 1899 . His father was a dry
goods merchant in Laurel. 'Blub' was a WWI Navy
aviator, discharged as a Lt.
Commander, was the Rehoboth railroad freight station manager,
helped start Rehoboth airport,
taught many of the area how to fly, and was a civic leader for
years.
Leon and Blance Thompson a are buried
in All Saints Episcopal Cemetery, Indian River,
Sussex county. Did anyone know
them?
OK, now to the recital and the young
pianists of the late 1950's. They were; Linda Austin.
Linda Maull, Patricia Brittingham,
Margaret Rowland, Tony Hill, Roberta Marshall,
Jane Hirnyck, Carol Ann Massey,
Norrene Austin,, Stevie Lehman, Carol McNeilly,
Patricia Morris, Susanne Mark,
Dolores Pfister, Lois Wilson, Ellen White, Barbara
White, Barbara Bailey and Rite Ware.
Lets have a rundown of them.
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