Monty Thompson Memorial Golf Outing raises over $6,000 for education
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August 24, 2016
Over 50 people attended the annual Monty Thompson Golf Outing to raise funds for the educational foundation in his name that supports South Barber schools in Kiowa. The youth in front are his grandchildren and one niece. They are (left to right) Abby Guffy, niece; and grandchildren Tatum Hackleman, Caydan Pore, Reed Hackleman, Creston Pore and Connor Pore.
A sunny, unseasonably pleasant Saturday in August is a day Monty Thompson would have found perfect for playing nine or, most likely, 18 holes of golf. On Aug. 13, over 50 of his buddies and other friends and family teed off in the annual Monty Thompson Golf Outing at the Anthony (Kansas) Golf Course.
Since Thompson's death in 2008 due to melanoma cancer, the Monty Thompson Continuing Education Foundation was formed. Plans for the foundation were in the works before he died and he knew days before his death it would be named in his memory, which his daughter Christy Hackleman said at the time "...
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