Edith Thompson Annual Memorial Ceremony

9 am: 9 January 2020,

City of London Cemetery

Aldersbrook Rd, Manor Park, London E12 5DQ

The service was started by Edith Thompson’s sister Avis Graydon in St Francis of Assisi’s RC Church in Stratford. It transferred to St Barnabas in Manor Park in the early 1990s, at the suggestion of the Reverend Barry Arscott together with René Weis. Edith Thompson attended St Barnabas and was married there on 15 January 1916. The service was held in this church annually for twenty-six years. It was taken first by Barry Arscott and then, for many years, by the Reverend James Ramsay. A copy of the service can be seen on this website. The last Edith Thompson service at St Barnabas was held on 9 January 2019. Now that Edith has been buried alongside her parents, it was deemed more appropriate to gather at her graveside in the City of London Cemetery in the future. The first such gathering will be on Thursday 9 January 2020.