Thomson

CORNWALL – Town Justice Joseph Thomson of Mountainville died on Monday, January 30. He had served on the Cornwall Town Justice Court bench for 49 years. He was 77 years old.

Town Supervisor Kevin Quigley said it was “a very sad day” for Cornwall. “He reached out to everybody.”

Quigley knew Thompson since he was a child.

“My father and judge were good friends in their day. He was a friend to everybody,” he said. “I remember he was a funny, comical guy, too.”

Thomson was predeceased by his wife, Rose, in 2007. He is survived by two daughters, a son-in-law, a brother and sister-in-law and four grandchildren.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, February 4, at St. Thomas of Canterbury Church in Cornwall-on-Hudson. Burial will follow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Mountainville.

Visitation will be held from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, February 3 at Quigley Brothers Funeral Home, 337 Hudson Street in Cornwall-on-Hudson.