Director of Coal River Mountain Watch, an organization which fights against mountaintop removal mining.
Awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2003.
She is survived by her grandson, Andrew (born in 1990); daughter, Lisa Henderson; two brothers, Ernie and Paul Thompson; three sisters, Wanda Webb, Marilyn Thompson, and Jamie Adkins.
She was one of nine children to Oliver and Sarah Thompson. Her father was a coal miner who retired at 65 and died of black lung disease.