The Rev. James Weldon Thompson, a priest of the Diocese of Newark, died Sept. 5 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York City. He was 62.

Fr. Thompson was born in Pittston, PA. He graduated from Capital University, OH, in 1954 and Union Theological Seminary, in 1957. He was ordained priest in 1959. Fr. Thompson served as curate of St. Paul's Malden, MA; rector of All Saints', Stoneham, MA; rector of Good Shepherd, Norfolk, VA; interim rector of Good Shepherd, Midland Park, NJ; and as rector of St. Martin's, Maywood, NJ. He is survived by his wife, Jean, a son, a daughter and a granddaughter.