Claremont Obituaries

Lois Rae (Long) Thompson died February 5 after a short illness at Pilgrim Place retirement community in Claremont, where she had lived for more than 28 years.

Born on November 25, 1929, Lois was raised on the campus of Southern Christian Institute, a boarding school for black students in Edwards, Mississippi, where her parents, John and Olive Long, served on the staff from the 1920s into the 1950s.