Wife of Hawaiian Circuit Court Judge J Wesley Thompson and founder of Kona Forum. Died on visit to Washington, D.C. Buried with her Denton relatives in Nashville.

Mrs. Leona D. Thompson's Funeral Will Be Held at 2:30 P. M. Today
Wife of Hawaiian Circuit Judge, J. Wesley Thompson
Dies in Washington.
Funeral services for Mrs. Leona Denton Thompson, wife of Judge J. Wesley Thompson of the Fourth Judicial circuit of Hawaii, who died In Washington Monday evening, of appendicitis, will be held In the parlors of Dorris, Karsch & Company Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. W. B. Taylor und Dr. E. B. Chappell will officiate.
Judge Thompson, who is rushing here from his post at Kailau, Hawaii, sent a cable Tuesday morning directing that the funeral be held here.
Pallbearers will be Gen. E. A. Price, Lee Brock, Prof. Bruce R. Payne. Gen. F. M. Bass, Ira Parker, Charles A. Howell, Judge W. C. Cherry and A. V. McLane. Burial will be at Mt. Olivet.
Both Judge and Mrs. Thompson formerly resided In Nashville, he having been assistant attorney-general of this county under the administrations of Gen. Jeff McCarn, F. M. Bass and E. A. Price. In 1914 he went to Hawaii to be assistant to General McCarn. then United States district attorney of Hawaii. He was appointed to his present post by President Woodrow Wilson, and has remained there throughout succeeding ad-ministrations.
Mrs. Thompson, who before her marriage was Miss Leona Denton of Nashville, returned here for a ten day visit in April, then went to Washington to attend the quinquennial of the International Council of Women, and was there taken ill with appendicitis. May 10 she underwent an operation and relatives were called to her bedside. Upon her improvement, however, they left, and were recalled too late to be present at her death.
She was known for her charity, and led in movements for International peace, taking as her field for endeavor the Hawaiian Islands. Her memorable work in the Islands during the raging Influenza epidemic endeared her to the natives.
Mrs. Thompson had arranged to given several talks on the Kona Forum, a peace education body in which she took a lead. while in America.
Coming from a well known Williamson County family, Mrs. Thompson is survived by her husband and four brothers: Paul Denton of Asheville, N. C., who arrived here Tuesday; Elroy C. Denton of Cincinnati, Eugene K. Denton of New York and Edgar K. Denton of Nashville.
The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) 20 May, 1925

Death reported in the Baha'i New Letter December 1925-January 1926
Mrs. J. Wesley Thompson, elected delegate at the 1925 .National Convention, from the Honolulu Assembly, passed away while making the journey to Green Acre. The extensive memorial notice appearing in the Honolulu Advertiser of June 2nd testifies to the high esteem and cordial respect felt for Mrs. Thompson throughout a wide circle of acquaintances. It is significant of her universal spirit that this notice was written by a Japanese student. "The most tangible expression of Mrs. Thompson's pioneering spirit was the founding of the Kona Forum. She honed devoutly that the organization would serve as a potent agency in promoting direct serial and intellectual intercourse among the many and mingled races represented in Kona. The Persian roll of Baha'ism. with its varied humanitarian tenets, also strongly appealed to Mrs. Thompson. She was its sole missionary in Kona, conducting a series of evening meetings in her library. when the various aspects of the Baha'i religion were explained to and discussed with her friendly neighbors."