Alberta S. Thompson departed this life on Thursday, October 9, 2014, at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby Pennsylvania.

Alberta was a christian, wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, aunt, sister and friend. She was born April 27, 1927 in Caroline County, Virginia to the late Charles and Lina Brown. She was the youngest of two children.

Alberta was educated in the Caroline County Public School System. She joined Beulah Baptist Church at an early age until she moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Alberta married the late Wilber M Thompson and from this union they were blessed with six children.

Alberta operated a nursery for children of all ages before relocating to Dorothy, New Jersey. She was employed at Wheaton Plastic for 25 years where she retired.

Alberta was greatly loved and will be sadly missed by all who knew her. She was preceded in death by her daughter Selina Thompson and brother Thomas Brown.

Alberta leaves to cherish her memory four daughters, Joyce Hicks (Leroy), Mary Consigliere, Alice Burse (Woodrow) and Alithia Tolbert; one aon, Wilber Thompson (Rita); eighteen grandchildren; twelve great grandchildren; one special sister-in-law, Theresa Byers and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Visitation will be held Tuesday, October 21, at Beulah Baptist Church, Arcadia Road, Woodford, Virginia 22580 from 9 to 10 a.m. with a celebration of life beginning at 10 a.m. Interment will follow at 2 p.m. at Quantico National Cemetery, Triangle, Virginia.