Christine Adelle Thompson, 44, of Helena, passed away on November 22, 2011 of meningitis. Christine was born on March 1, 1967 in Missoula, MT, the daughter of Michael and Adelle Thompson. <\/p>\n
She attended grade school at Bryant, Broadwater, and Four Georgians. She graduated from Capital High School in 1985. She attended college at the University of Montana, where she was the President of the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority. She graduated from Montana State University in 1990 with honors with a double degree in History and Psychology. In 1993, she received a degree in Elementary Education. <\/p>\n
She was married in 1991 to Larry MadPlume. She had two children, Michael Lawrence and Sarah Katherine. <\/p>\n
She worked at BCBS of Montana. While there, she earned 18 Service Plus Awards for outstanding customer service. She later worked at the VA Medical Center at Ft. Harrison, MT as a Claims Analyst. <\/p>\n
Chrissy was a very talented ballet dancer throughout high school. She enjoyed spending time reading science fiction books and watching science fiction movies, doing crossword and Sudoku puzzles, hanging out with her cats, Max, Bart, and Murphy, and her cockatiel, Newton. She made a fantastic cherry pie (her dad\u2019s favorite!), apple pie (Sarah\u2019s favorite!), chocolate mousse (Mikey\u2019s favorite!) and delicious peanut butter cookies. One great joy of her life, were her children, Sarah and Mikey. <\/p>\n
Chrissy is survived by her son, Mikey; daughter, Sarah; parents, Michael and Adelle Thompson of Helena; sister and brother-in-law, Katy and John Laible; neice, Addy; and nephews, KJ and Quinn of Boise, Idaho. She is also survived by her grandparents, Eugene and Grace Thompson of Tucson, Arizona; Uncle Mark and Aunt Barbara of Eugene, OR; Uncle Jake and Aunt Patty Jacobs of Helena; Aunt Joyce and Uncle Garry Wegner of Condon, MT; Uncle Ernest and Aunt Polly Gomez of Silver City, NM, Uncle Don Guest of Missoula, Uncles Bob and Jim Guest and families; cousins, Blaise and Kyung Jette of Portland, OR; Lisa and Lance Leister of Eugene, OR, and Christopher Jette of Bozeman, MT. <\/p>\n
She was preceded in death by her grandmothers, Maxine Thompson and Margaret Ostergren; grandparents, Edward and Helen Rogers; and her Aunt, Bette Rogers. <\/p>\n
The family will begin receiving friends at 2:15 p.m. Monday, November 28th at Anderson Stevenson Wilke Funeral Home, 3750 North Montana Avenue with funeral services to be held at 3:00 p.m. A reception will follow in the social hall of the funeral home. Memorials in Christine\u2019s name are suggested to a fund for Christine\u2019s children, Mikey and Sarah Mad Plume C\/O Valley Bank 3030 North Montana Avenue Helena, Montana 59601. Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting: www.aswfuneralhome.com<\/p>\n","photo":"https:\/\/helenafuneralhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/513693_profile_pic.jpg","youtube_video_url":"","family_email":"","family_first_name":"","family_last_name":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafuneralhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafuneralhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafuneralhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/case"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenafuneralhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafuneralhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}