Rebecca Jean Forrest Thompson

Rebecca Jean Forrest Thompson, 84, of Hamburg, passed away, Friday, July 18, 2025, at the Somerset Nightingale Health and Rehabilitation Center in Crossett after a short battle with cancer. Mrs. Thompson was born September 22, 1940 in Shreveport, Louisiana, was a lifelong resident of Hamburg, a 1958 graduate of Hamburg High School and was named a Hamburg High School Homecoming Maid. She was a faithful member of Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, where she played the piano for many years. Mrs. Thompson worked several odd jobs in her early years, but was mostly a homemaker. She helped her husband with their Sno Cone business and was the bookkeeper for Thompson Septic Tank Pumping. Mrs. Thompson enjoyed gardening and yard work, playing the piano at church, sewing, canning fruits and vegetables to enter into the Ashley County Fair, square dancing and "tagging along" with her husband to go eat out and visit with friends and family.

She is preceded in death by her husband of 64 years, Tommy Thompson, Sr., in 2024; a grandson, Michael Thompson in 2020; her parents, Brister Claude and Helen Tucker Forrest; a sister, Shirley Forrest Jeffers and four brothers, Clovis Forrest, Bobby Forrest, Johnny Forrest and Joe Forrest.

She is survived by a daughter, Betty Farmer and her husband, David; a son, Tommy Royce Thompson, Jr., all of Hamburg; two grandsons, Joseph Farmer and his wife, Suzanne, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma and Daniel Farmer of Eudora and her nieces and nephews.

Funeral services are  10 a.m., Tuesday, July 22, 2025, in the Chapel of Jones-Hartshorn Funeral Home with Bro. Joey Meredith officiating. A private burial will be in the Judson Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers are the members of her Sunday school class. Memorials may be made to World-Wide Literature and Missionary Supplies, PO Box 128, Hamburg, AR 71646. 

Visitation will be 9:30 - 10 a.m., Tuesday in the funeral home chapel.