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f*iThomson, etired Police %fker, Dies Peter Thomson, a retired po- lice officer familiar to two gen- erations of Bellevillians, died iuddenly at his home last night. Mr. Thomson, who retired from the city force in 1960 after : nearly 33 years service, was strickened with a fatal heart seizure, after he had been ' shovelling snow at his resi- 'dence, 24$ ^fcast Dundas Street, earlier in the day. Hfc 'joined the Belleville police in 1927 and his taciturn man- 'ner, backed by a powerful fi- jgure, made him one of the de- partment's best-known con- , stables to the citizens he ser- <ved. On his retirement from the •force he worked some time for ithe Belleville Parking Author- ity. He was born in Scotland, son ' of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Thom- son and came to Canada 42 5 yean ago. He moved to Belle- (Ville after working a year in 'Hamilton. Through the years he main- ' tained a contact with the cul- 'ture of his native land through Ms membership in the Sons of ' Scotland. He was t member of St. An- Idrew's Presbyterian Church. A widower, he was prede- 1 ceased some time ago by his ^wife, the former Barbara , Breckenridge. He leaves two sons, Andrew, af St. Catharines and Eichard, of Belleville; a daughter, Mrs. jPaul (Barbara) Aman, of .Northbrook; six grandchildren, land a sister, Mrs. Mary Wil- liamson of Scotland, Resting at the John K. Bush Funeral Home. The funeral no- tice appears elsewhere in this edition.