John Fowler Slavens (1998)

SLAVENS, PORTER, YORK, BROWN

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 5/20/2006 at 06:37:49

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, February 11, 1998
Page 14, Column 1

John Fowler Slavens, 82, died Feb. 3 in Cumming.

Funeral services were held Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Cumming Community Church with the Rev. Dr. Robert Benton officiating. Interment took place at Penn Center in rural Earlham.

John Fowler Slavens was born May 26, 1915, in Waukee to Guy Way and Sadie Florence (Porter) Slavens. He was a graduate of Earlham High School and a World War II veteran. On Jan. 15, 1948, he married Marjorie A. York. He was employed as a kiln operator by Penn Dixie Cement Co. of West Des Moines. He was a 50-year member of the Madison Lodge No. 568 A.F. & A.M. He was also an avid outdoors man and hunter, as well as a nature enthusiast.

He was preceded in death by his parents and wife.

He is survived by a daughter, Jeri Brown of Urbandale; a son, Tim Slavens of Johnson Creek, Wis.; a brother, Dr. J. Phillip Slavens of North Sioux City, Neb.; and four grandchildren.

Arrangements were handled by Kuhn Funeral Homes of Earlham.

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