Sam Ross Sloan III, 70, died peacefully in his sleep on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, at his home outside of Salt Lake City.
Born and raised in Breckenridge, the oldest son of Sam Ross Sloan Jr. and Mary Katherine Sloan, he had an exceptional, memorable boyhood that was mostly spent outdoors and always included working in the family ranching business. He was there for spring brandings and for roundups. He was in the saddle for dust storms and rain storms, for the gentle pastel light of dawn and the riotous Technicolor of many Texas sunsets; he fell asleep in the bunkhouse at night, listening to the low murmur of his grandfather, father, and the hired hands in conversation after hard days of labor.
He took up hunting, and his mother - who loved him unconditionally the whole of his life, as she did all her children - would pick him up from school with two rifles in the Jeep to take him on mother-son hunts for deer and turkey on the McLemore Ranch. He would later accompany both his parents on their big game hunts to faraway places while they pursued their goal of being the first couple to complete a Grand Slam of North American Wild Sheep, a feat they accomplished in 1962.
Later in life, he joined his parents for trout fishing trips in Alaska, Oregon and Montana. He loved nature and adventuring in wide open, wild spaces. He often said that every day in nature will offer up at least one thing worth remembering, which is something he felt could not be said about the busyness and relentlessness of city life. After his father died, he and his daughter collaborated on planning international fishing trips for his widowed mother, taking her to Venezuela, British Columbia, Mexico and Alaska, trips that helped blunt her grief and bring everyone closer.
The happiness of his early years was only surpassed by the birth of his daughter, Cody Allison Torrance Sloan, in 1972, and the birth of his son, Sam Ross Sloan IV, in 1980. He graduated Breckenridge High School in 1964. He was handsome, a strongly-built six feet and four inches tall. He played football at New Mexico Military Institute and Southwest Texas State, where, for one season, he had the nation’s highest punting average, a statistic that earned him offers to play professional football from both the Dallas Cowboys and Cleveland Browns.
He volunteered for the Army in 1968, serving two years during the Vietnam War era without doing a tour of duty in Southeast Asia. He ultimately completed his undergraduate degree at SMU in Dallas, continuing on there to earn his JD, LL.M, and S.J.D. He married twice for love. He lived in Houston and worked as a tax lawyer, retiring in his 30s.
He returned home to Breckenridge in the 1990s to be closer to family and the family ranches, relocating in time to devotedly care for his cancer-stricken father and to be at his side when he passed away in 1996.
For facts of his life, there are many others, but he is remembered now as a man of great promise, a man who valued integrity and charity, as a father who loved his two children fiercely, as an intellect, a believer in Jesus Christ and salvation, a perfectionist, a philosopher, a storyteller, and, at his best, as someone who wanted to
live honorably and lift others up.
He is reunited with his father; his mother; his youngest brother, Ward; with his first wife, Sandi Torrance Sloan; and also with dear friends who died too soon: John Van Orden, Mike Roberts, Gail Whitcomb and Tom Whitcomb.
He leaves behind his older sister, Dana Mackenzie; his younger brother, Parks Sloan; two nieces, Kathleen Sloan and Liz Sloan; his nephew, Zach Sloan; his two children; his daughter-in-law, Emily Sloan; and his eight grandchildren: Sam Ross Sloan V, Rowan Richard Sloan, Josephine Ophelia Sloan, Audrey WildRose Sloan, Addison Darcy Wallace Sloan, Quinn Stephens Sloan, Evangeline Violet Sloan, and Pemberley Rue Sloan.
The family is grateful for the competence and loyalty of Derrick Drotts, who attended him constantly in the last years of his life.
The high points in his life were like the foretaste and promise of Heaven.
A graveside service for family and family friends will be held at the Breckenridge Cemetery on Saturday, Oct. 15, at 2:00 P.M.
Born and raised in Breckenridge, the oldest son of Sam Ross Sloan Jr. and Mary Katherine Sloan, he had an exceptional, memorable boyhood that was mostly spent outdoors and always included working in the family ranching business. He was there for spring brandings and for roundups. He was in the saddle for dust storms and rain storms, for the gentle pastel light of dawn and the riotous Technicolor of many Texas sunsets; he fell asleep in the bunkhouse at night, listening to the low murmur of his grandfather, father, and the hired hands in conversation after hard days of labor.
He took up hunting, and his mother - who loved him unconditionally the whole of his life, as she did all her children - would pick him up from school with two rifles in the Jeep to take him on mother-son hunts for deer and turkey on the McLemore Ranch. He would later accompany both his parents on their big game hunts to faraway places while they pursued their goal of being the first couple to complete a Grand Slam of North American Wild Sheep, a feat they accomplished in 1962.
Later in life, he joined his parents for trout fishing trips in Alaska, Oregon and Montana. He loved nature and adventuring in wide open, wild spaces. He often said that every day in nature will offer up at least one thing worth remembering, which is something he felt could not be said about the busyness and relentlessness of city life. After his father died, he and his daughter collaborated on planning international fishing trips for his widowed mother, taking her to Venezuela, British Columbia, Mexico and Alaska, trips that helped blunt her grief and bring everyone closer.
The happiness of his early years was only surpassed by the birth of his daughter, Cody Allison Torrance Sloan, in 1972, and the birth of his son, Sam Ross Sloan IV, in 1980. He graduated Breckenridge High School in 1964. He was handsome, a strongly-built six feet and four inches tall. He played football at New Mexico Military Institute and Southwest Texas State, where, for one season, he had the nation’s highest punting average, a statistic that earned him offers to play professional football from both the Dallas Cowboys and Cleveland Browns.
He volunteered for the Army in 1968, serving two years during the Vietnam War era without doing a tour of duty in Southeast Asia. He ultimately completed his undergraduate degree at SMU in Dallas, continuing on there to earn his JD, LL.M, and S.J.D. He married twice for love. He lived in Houston and worked as a tax lawyer, retiring in his 30s.
He returned home to Breckenridge in the 1990s to be closer to family and the family ranches, relocating in time to devotedly care for his cancer-stricken father and to be at his side when he passed away in 1996.
For facts of his life, there are many others, but he is remembered now as a man of great promise, a man who valued integrity and charity, as a father who loved his two children fiercely, as an intellect, a believer in Jesus Christ and salvation, a perfectionist, a philosopher, a storyteller, and, at his best, as someone who wanted to
live honorably and lift others up.
He is reunited with his father; his mother; his youngest brother, Ward; with his first wife, Sandi Torrance Sloan; and also with dear friends who died too soon: John Van Orden, Mike Roberts, Gail Whitcomb and Tom Whitcomb.
He leaves behind his older sister, Dana Mackenzie; his younger brother, Parks Sloan; two nieces, Kathleen Sloan and Liz Sloan; his nephew, Zach Sloan; his two children; his daughter-in-law, Emily Sloan; and his eight grandchildren: Sam Ross Sloan V, Rowan Richard Sloan, Josephine Ophelia Sloan, Audrey WildRose Sloan, Addison Darcy Wallace Sloan, Quinn Stephens Sloan, Evangeline Violet Sloan, and Pemberley Rue Sloan.
The family is grateful for the competence and loyalty of Derrick Drotts, who attended him constantly in the last years of his life.
The high points in his life were like the foretaste and promise of Heaven.
A graveside service for family and family friends will be held at the Breckenridge Cemetery on Saturday, Oct. 15, at 2:00 P.M.
Sam Ross Sloan III, 70, died peacefully in his sleep on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, at his home outside of Salt Lake City.
Born and raised in Breckenridge, the oldest son of Sam Ross Sloan Jr. and Mary Katherine Sloan, he had an exceptional, memorable boyhood that was mostly spent outdoors and always included working in the family ranching business. He was there for spring brandings and for roundups. He was in the saddle for dust storms and rain storms, for the gentle pastel light of dawn and the riotous Technicolor of many Texas sunsets; he fell asleep in the bunkhouse at night, listening to the low murmur of his grandfather, father, and the hired hands in conversation after hard days of labor.
He took up hunting, and his mother - who loved him unconditionally the whole of his life, as she did all her children - would pick him up from school with two rifles in the Jeep to take him on mother-son hunts for deer and turkey on the McLemore Ranch. He would later accompany both his parents on their big game hunts to faraway places while they pursued their goal of being the first couple to complete a Grand Slam of North American Wild Sheep, a feat they accomplished in 1962.
Later in life, he joined his parents for trout fishing trips in Alaska, Oregon and Montana. He loved nature and adventuring in wide open, wild spaces. He often said that every day in nature will offer up at least one thing worth remembering, which is something he felt could not be said about the busyness and relentlessness of city life. After his father died, he and his daughter collaborated on planning international fishing trips for his widowed mother, taking her to Venezuela, British Columbia, Mexico and Alaska, trips that helped blunt her grief and bring everyone closer.
The happiness of his early years was only surpassed by the birth of his daughter, Cody Allison Torrance Sloan, in 1972, and the birth of his son, Sam Ross Sloan IV, in 1980. He graduated Breckenridge High School in 1964. He was handsome, a strongly-built six feet and four inches tall. He played football at New Mexico Military Institute and Southwest Texas State, where, for one season, he had the nation’s highest punting average, a statistic that earned him offers to play professional football from both the Dallas Cowboys and Cleveland Browns.
He volunteered for the Army in 1968, serving two years during the Vietnam War era without doing a tour of duty in Southeast Asia. He ultimately completed his undergraduate degree at SMU in Dallas, continuing on there to earn his JD, LL.M, and S.J.D. He married twice for love. He lived in Houston and worked as a tax lawyer, retiring in his 30s.
He returned home to Breckenridge in the 1990s to be closer to family and the family ranches, relocating in time to devotedly care for his cancer-stricken father and to be at his side when he passed away in 1996.
For facts of his life, there are many others, but he is remembered now as a man of great promise, a man who valued integrity and charity, as a father who loved his two children fiercely, as an intellect, a believer in Jesus Christ and salvation, a perfectionist, a philosopher, a storyteller, and, at his best, as someone who wanted to
live honorably and lift others up.
He is reunited with his father; his mother; his youngest brother, Ward; with his first wife, Sandi Torrance Sloan; and also with dear friends who died too soon: John Van Orden, Mike Roberts, Gail Whitcomb and Tom Whitcomb.
He leaves behind his older sister, Dana Mackenzie; his younger brother, Parks Sloan; two nieces, Kathleen Sloan and Liz Sloan; his nephew, Zach Sloan; his two children; his daughter-in-law, Emily Sloan; and his eight grandchildren: Sam Ross Sloan V, Rowan Richard Sloan, Josephine Ophelia Sloan, Audrey WildRose Sloan, Addison Darcy Wallace Sloan, Quinn Stephens Sloan, Evangeline Violet Sloan, and Pemberley Rue Sloan.
The family is grateful for the competence and loyalty of Derrick Drotts, who attended him constantly in the last years of his life.
The high points in his life were like the foretaste and promise of Heaven.
A graveside service for family and family friends will be held at the Breckenridge Cemetery on Saturday, Oct. 15, at 2:00 P.M.
Born and raised in Breckenridge, the oldest son of Sam Ross Sloan Jr. and Mary Katherine Sloan, he had an exceptional, memorable boyhood that was mostly spent outdoors and always included working in the family ranching business. He was there for spring brandings and for roundups. He was in the saddle for dust storms and rain storms, for the gentle pastel light of dawn and the riotous Technicolor of many Texas sunsets; he fell asleep in the bunkhouse at night, listening to the low murmur of his grandfather, father, and the hired hands in conversation after hard days of labor.
He took up hunting, and his mother - who loved him unconditionally the whole of his life, as she did all her children - would pick him up from school with two rifles in the Jeep to take him on mother-son hunts for deer and turkey on the McLemore Ranch. He would later accompany both his parents on their big game hunts to faraway places while they pursued their goal of being the first couple to complete a Grand Slam of North American Wild Sheep, a feat they accomplished in 1962.
Later in life, he joined his parents for trout fishing trips in Alaska, Oregon and Montana. He loved nature and adventuring in wide open, wild spaces. He often said that every day in nature will offer up at least one thing worth remembering, which is something he felt could not be said about the busyness and relentlessness of city life. After his father died, he and his daughter collaborated on planning international fishing trips for his widowed mother, taking her to Venezuela, British Columbia, Mexico and Alaska, trips that helped blunt her grief and bring everyone closer.
The happiness of his early years was only surpassed by the birth of his daughter, Cody Allison Torrance Sloan, in 1972, and the birth of his son, Sam Ross Sloan IV, in 1980. He graduated Breckenridge High School in 1964. He was handsome, a strongly-built six feet and four inches tall. He played football at New Mexico Military Institute and Southwest Texas State, where, for one season, he had the nation’s highest punting average, a statistic that earned him offers to play professional football from both the Dallas Cowboys and Cleveland Browns.
He volunteered for the Army in 1968, serving two years during the Vietnam War era without doing a tour of duty in Southeast Asia. He ultimately completed his undergraduate degree at SMU in Dallas, continuing on there to earn his JD, LL.M, and S.J.D. He married twice for love. He lived in Houston and worked as a tax lawyer, retiring in his 30s.
He returned home to Breckenridge in the 1990s to be closer to family and the family ranches, relocating in time to devotedly care for his cancer-stricken father and to be at his side when he passed away in 1996.
For facts of his life, there are many others, but he is remembered now as a man of great promise, a man who valued integrity and charity, as a father who loved his two children fiercely, as an intellect, a believer in Jesus Christ and salvation, a perfectionist, a philosopher, a storyteller, and, at his best, as someone who wanted to
live honorably and lift others up.
He is reunited with his father; his mother; his youngest brother, Ward; with his first wife, Sandi Torrance Sloan; and also with dear friends who died too soon: John Van Orden, Mike Roberts, Gail Whitcomb and Tom Whitcomb.
He leaves behind his older sister, Dana Mackenzie; his younger brother, Parks Sloan; two nieces, Kathleen Sloan and Liz Sloan; his nephew, Zach Sloan; his two children; his daughter-in-law, Emily Sloan; and his eight grandchildren: Sam Ross Sloan V, Rowan Richard Sloan, Josephine Ophelia Sloan, Audrey WildRose Sloan, Addison Darcy Wallace Sloan, Quinn Stephens Sloan, Evangeline Violet Sloan, and Pemberley Rue Sloan.
The family is grateful for the competence and loyalty of Derrick Drotts, who attended him constantly in the last years of his life.
The high points in his life were like the foretaste and promise of Heaven.
A graveside service for family and family friends will be held at the Breckenridge Cemetery on Saturday, Oct. 15, at 2:00 P.M.
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