SLAYTON, Sarah

SLAYTON, PARKER, LOGAN, RHOADES, DAVIS, WORKMAN, VANPELT, KEMP, BOLES, GRAY, HILTON, SLEZAK, MYERS, HUBBELL, TODD, PIPPY, BLAIN

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Date: 9/29/2005 at 15:51:50

Glenwood Opinion Tribune
October 24, 1940

Funeral Services Held On Tuesday For Mrs. Slayton
Body of Mother of Mrs. B.L. Gray taken to Old Home at Sioux City for Burial Following Service Here

Funeral services were held in the Glenwood Methodist Church Tuesday, October 22, at 10 o'clock for Mrs. Sarah Slayton. The services were conducted by the Pastor, Rev. H.G. Parker. Music for the service consisted of two hymns, requested by the family, "Softly and Tenderly" and "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" rendered by Mary Evelyn Logan and Mrs. Clyde Rhoades, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Stanley Davis. The ladies who cared for the floral offerings were the Mesdames, A.S. Workman, D.E. VanPelt, F.V. Kemp, C.W. Boles. The pallbearers were Bevernard Gray, Howard Gray, Paul Hilton, William Slezak Jr., Kenneth Myers, and Verris Hubbell.

The body was taken in the Myers funeral coach, accompanied by relatives and intimate friends to her old home at Sioux City, where burial was made beside the graves of other loved ones in the cemetery there.

The following life sketch was read at the funeral services.

Sarah Jane Todd, daughter of Edward and Jane Todd, was born June 24, 1859, at Smithland, Woodbury County, Iowa. She was the youngest of seven daughters. When she was a small child the family moved to Sioux City, Ia., her father being one of the pioneers of that city. Here she grew to womanhood and made her home until she married Clarence E. Slayton, thus becoming the loving stepmother of five motherless children. To this union was born one son, Howard Todd.

She passed away at 8:30 o'clock Sunday morning, Oct. 20, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. B.L. Gray.

Her husband preceded her in death April 12, 1933, also one son, John E., who died Nov. 22, 1912.

She leaves to mourn her passing two daughters, Mrs. B.L. Gray of Glenwood, Ia., and Mrs. G.F. Pippy of East Orange, N.J., and three sons, E.R. Slayton and H.T. Slayton of Chicago, Ill., and C.H. Slayton of Omaha, Neb. Also twelve grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. She has one sister living, Mrs. Leona Blain of Monrovia, Calif.

Mrs. Slayton was a lifelong member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, having joined as a child. During her active years she was untiring in serving her church in whatever way she could, and also social organizations such as W.C.T.U. and Eastern Star.