Torger G. and Alice (Nelson) Thompson, Dallas, Texas.

TORGER'S FAMILY Torger was in Lyon County, Minnesota in 1910, with Louis 40 and Esther 25. Torger is 4, Esther 3.
All four are in Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota in 1920.

ALICE'S FAMILY
In 1910 La Moure County, North Dakota, Knudt Nelson is 53 born in Norway, Sena 42 Norway. Bertha N. 18, Otilla 16, Nathan 13, Ruth 12, Leonard 10, Alice 8, and Estella 5 were born in Iowa. Harlan is 2.

Knudt 1857-1928 is buried in Worth County, Iowa # 20603778.

In 1930 Sina is widowed, 62, in Hector, Renville County, Minnesota, with daughter Otilla King 35 and her husband Claude 35.

Sina (Nelson) Carlson 1867-1938 is buried in Fargo, North Dakota # 102833176.

Harlan H. Nelson 1907-1984 is buried in Fargo # 97993088.

Stella Cornelia (Nelson) Rudd 1904-1977 is buried in Fargo # 108101010.

TORGER AND ALICE

Alice Anderson and Torger G. Thompson married in Cook County, Illinois

In 1940 Dallas, 834 North Marsalis, Torger is 32 born in Minnesota, Alice 34 in Illinois, he was in Fargo, ND in 19035, Alice Chicago in 1935.
Torg was not only a graphic designer

The original Texas Instruments logo was comissioned in 1950 by one of the company founder John Eric Jonsson shortly before the company's name changed to Texas Instruments. The designer was Torg Thompson. The logo represents the outlines of the state of Texas and the letters "t" for texas and "i" for instruments.

Torg said "These two guys came to me wanting a design to represent the state. So I sketched out one in five minutes for them. They offered me two shares in their new company, or $100 cash. I took the $100!"

Torger is best known for his 120-foot-long mural of the Miracle of Pentecost.

April 1968 "Seven Sundays after the first Easter, according to Biblical history, the miracle of Pentecost occurred. Dallas artist Torg Thompson, who is painting an heroic-sized, 120-feet long, 24-feet high rendering of that scene, quotes Act II: "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, there were all with one accord in one place.
"The first and the last time the churches were ever in accord," he notes caustically. The scene has fascinated him all his life, when the disciples and some 120 others gathered" spoke in one tongue. Six masters have recreated the scene, he said, but he modestly suggests they have it wrong.
"The first question is, all in what place? It's always been considered the Upper Room where Jesus met with the disciples. But my research has revealed there was no room that large in Jerusalem. It wasn't like Dallas, in those days you know," he explains.
Two and a half years of research, the artist says, have unmistakenly defined the "place" to him as Herod's Temple, at Solomon's Porch - scene of many of Jesus' healings, and from which he drove the money-changers. It was in this setting, says Thompson, that the Holy Spirit was released, as promised, to those gathered there and gave them power to do what he did.
Work began on the project in 1961. Thompson says, and he has been painting steadily for the past year and a half. It is located in a temporary building on Northwest Highway, across from North Park shopping center. When completed, he says, a $1.650 million building will house it, with controlled temperature, a 1000-seat auditorium, and a computer-programmed narration to a lighting and sound system that will include 24 sound tracks and 200 speakers. "You will hear the goats and sheep being brought into the temple for sale as sacrifices," he said. Only one such thing exists in the world, the artist said: a crucifixion scene at Forest Lawn in Los Angeles. "But it was designed 20 years ago, before they had the benefits of electronic devices and computers," he said;
Thompson, working with another artist, Al Barnes, is portraying the entire gathering of 120, including biblical characters he assumes from his study would have been present. These include those healed by Jesus — the Centurion, Mary Magdalene, the nobleman whose son was healed, Lazarus, etc. The withered hand, he explained, will be shown as healed: a shaft of sun streaking through the Temple will highlight it.
The project is underwritten by the Miracle at Pentecost Foundation, financed largely by Dallas philanthropist Mrs. Mattie Caruth Byrd. It will be open seven hours a day, for seven showings, seven days a week. There will be no admission charge. Thompson, who gave up his large commercial art studio to undertake the painting, says he reserarched all available histories before beginning, including the writings of Josephus. He also had a great aid in a cross-section rendering of the ruins of the Temple and re-creation of its dimensions from a 1600 A. D. encyclopedia belonging to a Dallas rabbi. The rabbi agreed, Thompson said, with his location of the scene in the Temple, according to Jewish interpretation of the wording."



Torger also created the bust for the oil industry's Joe Roughneck.

Torger and Alice retired to a hilltop home about five miles north of Mountainburg, Arkansas in the 1960's, and in 1972 their good friends Gil and Elouise Kellberg from Dallas retired next to them.

1975 " I looked all over the country for the best place to live," says Torg Thompson, a former Dallas. Texas, urbanite who finally built a home atop an Ozark hill in Mountainburg Arkansas - population 500. "Now people are moving here from all over the United States, leaving the city smog and crime and bringing their children up in a beautiful place," said Thompson, who barters his homegrown strawberries for string beans from neighbors — the closest one a mile away."

In his studio at Mountainburg, Torg continued painting, but also worked in stained glass.

"The four-acre property located at the junction of Josey Lane and Rabbit Run Road in North Carrollton was obtained by the Grace Union Presbytery in 1973 and was presented to the congregation when the Church was commissioned. The young congregation, in an effort to identify the property, erected a large, wooden, Celtic cross at the southern end of the property, prior to Palm Sunday 1976.
On Sunday, May 12, 1985, the three stained-glass windows in the sanctuary were dedicated. They were designed by Dallas artist Torg Thompson, who is known for the tapestry and production at the Dallas Biblical Arts Center entitled “The Miracle at Pentecost.” He is a friend of Pastor Earl Price. At the dedication Thompson stated, “The Incarnation” (window #1) symbolizes the time when God broke directly into mankind; the Resurrection (window #2) symbolizes the forgiveness for man; and at Pentecost (window #3), man became free — that’s when the church began."

Creation of a Masterpiece : The Miracle at Pentecost Hardcover – 1976 by Torger G. Thompson and Zola Levitt (Author)
This book details the life, work, and inspiring witness of the man chosen by God to represent this miracle in oil paints. Readers will find Torger Thompson a plain man, dedicated to God and the Bible. He was never a world-famous artist, never a noted theologian, but always a faithful Bible teacher.

"Terry Ann Viegas wrote a review of this book in 2011. Terry then a Catholic Nun and school teacher described her visit some time before in Dallas to view the painting, "The Miracle at Pentecost" by Torger G. Thompson by her and her confirmation class at Christ the King School also in Dallas. As Terry wrote in her review, and because they were all so touched by the painting, all her students wrote a note to the artist about his painting. Subsequently, Torger Thompson then actually made a 2 day visit to Terry's class at Christ the King School to discuss his "chalk talks". Later on, Terry Ann made several visits to Mountainburg, AK to visit "Torge" and his wife, Alice. Torger G. Thompson passed away in 1998 but before he passed, Torge painted probably his last work for Terry Ann around 1995, "The Prayer." My sister Terry Ann recently passed away in Detroit, Michigan on 06/07/2017 and now I have that painting, "The Prayer" and a copy of the book, Creation of a Masterpiece: The Miracle at Pentecost by Torger G. Thompson and Zola Levitt. I will treasure them both forever!"

Alice and Torger moved in the 1980's to Presbyterian Village, Dallas.

Torger G. 1905-1988 is buried in Dallas # 105817498
Alice 1902-1998 # 105817713.

January 5, 1977 Lincoln, Nebraska
RUDD - Stella C, 72, 6101 Normal Blvd , died Tuesday. Homemaker. Born Northwood, Iowa, former resident of Fargo, N.D., 6 year Lincoln resident. Member St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Fargo. Survivors: son, M. Eugene, Lincoln; brothers, Harlan Nelson, Clearwater, Fla.; Nehm Nelson, Tucson, Ariz.; sisters, Mrs. C A. King, Oakland, Calif.; Mrs. Torger (Alice) Thompson, Mountainburg, Ark.; three grandchildren. Roper & Sons Mortuary,