In 1940, he married Nancy Elizabeth Jenkins; and they had three children—two sons, Stephen and Michael, and one daughter, Sydney.
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In 2012 Thompson created a helium-filled copy of a sculpture by Michael Heizer, for an official Fourth of July float for the Aspen Art Museum.