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Originally Posted by Stuart

That's sad news. I included his obituary below. I have a spare radio for my car and always intended on having him do the conversion on it, guess I waited too long.

Thompson, Gregory

Age 71 of White Bear Lake

Died suddenly surrounded by his wife and children on October 23, 2021.

Greg is preceded in death by his father, Thomas A. Thompson; mother, Jean LaVonne Thompson; mother-in-law (Doris), and father-in-law (Orville).

He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Becky Thompson; children; Tom (Tiffany), Ted (Janice), Theresa (Brian); and 9 grandchildren, Maren, Gaven, Caden, Allyson, Brayden, Brianna, Emmett, Norah, and Lucas.

Greg was born and raised in Minneapolis and graduated from Brown Institute. He started his career at Shaak Electronics then moved onto Dayton Hudson Corp and Target for 20+ years. Then he purchased S&M Electro-Tech where he enjoyed talking about radios, vintage cars, and speakers with all of his customers. Outside the working world, Greg was an active volunteer in Boy Scouts and church committees. He enjoyed spending time at the cabin, fishing, hunting and woodworking. He also enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren doing these activities. Greg had a love of old music, antique cars, food, and activities with family and friends.

A visitation will be held Monday, November 1st from 5pm – 8pm at Bradshaw Funeral Home (4600 Greenhaven Drive, White Bear Lake, MN 55127). A service will be held on Tuesday, Nov 2nd at Christ the King Lutheran Church (1660 Birch Lake Avenue, White Bear Lake) at 2pm with a visitation one hour prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials can be sent to either: Christ the King Lutheran Church in WBL (address above) or Antique Auto Club of America, 112 NE 5th St., Melrose, MN 56352.

Update on Turnswitch. I had my 72 radio in queue do be converted by Greg when I got the call from his relatives that he had passed. Instead of sending the radio back to me, they asked if it'd be okay if they sent the radio down the road from them to Muscle Car Radio who had agreed to take over the conversions that Greg still had waiting. I said sure and the correspondence with Muscle Car Radio was awesome and I got my radio a few weeks later. They use the same Aurora conversion kit that Greg did. A bonus was that Muscle Car Radio was about $50 cheaper. Got it installed and I'm very happy. I can play Pandora through my phone via bluetooth on my stock appearing radio. Here's their website https://www.mcrconversions.com/

Turnswitch (now run by Gregs son and son-in-law) is still selling the speakers that Greg also did. I bought one of their 4x10 special rectangular dual HP speakers for the factory front speaker location.