Ammon Lester Slayden (1987)

BLACK, FINK, GILLESPIE, ORTIZ, ROSE, SLAYDEN, WEED, WRIGHT

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 1/20/2007 at 09:39:57

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, July 15, 1987

Ammon Lester Slayden, Duluth, Minn.

Ammon Lester Slayden, the son of David and Francis (Black) Slayden, was born April 6, 1908, in Jasper County, Iowa, and died July 4, 1987 at St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota, at the age of seventy-nine.

Ammon grew up in the Wick farm community. He was married to Grace Elsie Wright. To this union two sons, Wayne and James and three daughters, Mildred, Wanda and Suzanne were born.

Ammon lived in Des Moines for many years where he worked as a painter. In his later years following his marriage to Helen M. Rose on January 6, 1956, he assisted in the operation of the Helen Rose School for Exceptional Children which was available to cerebral palsy children. Following his retirement, he had resided in Apache Junction, Arizona since 1977. He had been living in Phoenix, Arizona, for the past year and a half. He had been staying with his son, Wayne, during the past week at their resort at Isabella, Minnesota.

Ammon's special interests included exploring and practicing with his Colt 45 handgun.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his son James; and first wife Grace; his second wife Helen; two brothers, Fred and James; and a sister Myrtle.

Surviving are his son Wayne of Phoenix; three daughters, Wanda Ortiz, Mildred Gillespie and Suzanne Weed, all of Des Moines; one sister Dee Dee Fink of Denver, Colorado; nineteen grandchildren; twenty-eight great-grandchildren.

The Overton Funeral Home was in charge of the services whick were held on July 7. Pastor James Patrick, Indianola, conducted the service. Burial was in the Blair Chapel Cemetery, near St. Charles.
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The Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa
Monday, July 06, 1987
Page 11, Column 3

AMMON L. SLAYDEN
Special Dispatch to The Register

APACHE JUNCTION, ARIZ. -Ammon L. Slayden, 79, of Apache Junction, Ariz., formerly of Des Moines, died of a stroke Saturday at St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth, Minn. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Overton Funeral Home in Indianola. Burial will be in the Blair Chapel Cemetery in Madison County.

Mr. Slayden had lived in Des Moines for most of his life. He had retired from the Helen Rose School for Exceptional Children in Des Moines in 1977 and moved to Arizona.

Survivors include his son, Wayne of Phoenix, Ariz.; three daughters, Wanda Ortiz, Mildred Gillespie and Suzanne Weed, all of Des Moines; a sister, Dee Fink of Denver, Colo.; 19 grandchildren; and 28 great-grandchildren.

Friends may call until the time of service at the funeral home.

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