Thelma Thompson leaves a legacy in Lee

Mickey Starling reporter3@greenepublishing.com Thelma Thompson’s road to Lee is a long and winding adventure that began in her native Monticello, Ill., where she was born in 1919. After her parent’s marriage failed, she and her mother moved to Georgia, where her mother met Bob Bembry while working in an orange grove. They soon married and became sharecroppers in Lee, where young Thelma graduated from Lee Junior High School in 1934. After graduating from Madison High School, Thompson pla