Conswello Marie Franklin Thompson

Touch somebody’s life with your goodness, Touch somebody’s life with your love. Touch somebody’s life with understanding, for that is the only way to show our Father’s Love.

Conswello Marie Franklin Thompson, affectionately known as “Connie”, was born on January 31, 1934, to the parentage of Russell Franklin and Maxine Bee Franklin in Lexington, Virginia. At a young age, she and her mother moved to Charleston, West Virginia where her mother remarried James E. Jones and she was lovingly raised by her parents. Connie accepted Jesus Christ at an early age at Simpson United Methodist Church in Charleston. She attended Garnet High School and West Virginia State College.

Upon completion of college, she moved to Cleveland, Ohio where she pursued a career in Early Childhood Education, teaching Pre-Kindergarten/Kindergarten for Cleveland Public Schools and East Cleveland City Schools.

In Cleveland, she attended Olivet Institutional Baptist Church under the leadership of Rev. O. M. Hover, then later Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr., where she and her daughter Debbie were baptized together. After retiring from teaching, Connie served as Rev. Moss’s secretary for many years.

After the death of her husband, George, Connie returned to her hometown of Charleston to care for her mother and became a part of her mother’s church. While there, she worked with the youth in an afterschool tutoring program.

In 2011, Connie moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to be with her daughter and grandsons. She attended Lincoln Heights Missionary Baptist Church until her health declined, and she was unable to do so.

Connie peacefully entered eternal rest on the night of July 28, 2025, at home surrounded in love by her daughter and grandsons.

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” II Timothy 4:7-8

Connie was preceded in death by her parents; husband, George Webb Thompson Jr.; son-in-law, Melton Adams Jr.; special friends, Edna S. Adams and Dorothy DeGraffenreid.

Her memory will be cherished by her dearly devoted daughter, Deborah Franklin Adams; grandchildren, Brent Elliott Adams Sr., Jordon Franklin Adams, and Melton Adams III (Shunda); great grandchildren, Kennedy Lynne Adams, Brent Elliott Adams Jr., London Noelle Adams, and Jackson Carter Adams; bonus daughter, Terri Thompson Davis; lifelong friend, Willa Williams of California; her New Life Fellowship Baptist Church Family and her friends in Charleston, West Virginia.

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