Alletta (Early) Sloan (1920)
EARLY, SLOAN, THOMSON
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 3/3/2007 at 17:56:39
Earlham, Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, March 25, 1920
Page 1, Column 3Death Of ALLETTA E. SLOAN
Mrs. Alletta Sloan, daughter of Mr. Thomas Early died at the latter's home in Des Moines early Wednesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Thomson attended the funeral services held in Des Moines today (Thursday). Mrs. Sloan had spent but little of her life in this vicinity but has frequently visited here and was well known. The Capital had the following to say concerning her life and passing:
In the death of Mrs. Alletta Early Sloan this morning at 3:45, Des Moines loses one of its best types of young womanhood. Her death took place at the home of her father, Mr. Thomas Early at Seventeenth and Pleasant streets, where she had been seriously ill the past ten days.
Mrs. Sloan left the city on the first day of January going to Rochester and from Rochester she was sent to the John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore for treatment. She then went to a sanitarium in Washington hoping the complete rest and could would prove beneficial. Two weeks ago heart complications developed and she was told by her attending physicians that she had but a short time to live. Accompanied by two nurses she made the long trip home ten days ago for it was her expressed desire to be again in the home where all her young girlhood had been spent.
Mrs. Sloan's death is the greater shock to her friends because her seeming strength manifested in a keen interest in golf, as an expert motor driver and other forms of outdoor sports. She was a great lover of travel and has visited most of the interesting spots in America as well as abroad. During the war she proved one of the most tireless workers in Red Cross activities. She was a member of the Salvation Army Rescue Home Board and was interested in various other form of local philanthropy.
She is survived by her father, Mr. Thomas Early and her brother, Maj. Orson Early of Los Angles who has been in the city the past few days. Funeral services will take place the later part of the week at the family home.
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