Funeral services for Orval Sloan, 61, of Route 3, Lebanon were held at 2 p.m. August 15, 1974 at Palmer Pickering Chapel with Bob Wirth officiating. Interment was in Lebanon City Cemetery.

Organ selections, "How Great Thou Art" and "Old Rugged Cross" were by Gretchen Brown. Escorts were Francis Murphy, Richard Bennett, Robert Dotson, Jim Simpson, Roy Clay and Joel Richards.

Orval Oley Sloan, son of James Marion and Lucy Keith Sloan, was born at Swedeborg, Missouri September 25, 1912 and died in Cox Medical Center, Springfield, August 13, 1974.

On August 14, 1934 he was united in marriage to Goldie Lee Fairchild. To this union four children were born. One son Ralph, died in infancy. Preceded also in death by his parents, eight siblings and his father and mother in-law Oliver and Nellie Fairchild.

Orval was a merchant for several years, having owned and operated different grocery stores and restaurants. The past few years he worked as a dispatcher for the Lebanon Police Department.
He was a member of the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints.

Surviviors include his devoted and loving wife, Goldie; one son Bobby Lee and his wife Mary Ann Sloan; two daughters, Juanita Lowrance and her husband Kenneth; Barbara Darst and her husband Russell.
Four brothers also survive, George, Wilbert, Clell and Arthur Sloan.

Grandpa to Rhonda, Robert and Jimmy Sloan; Chris, Sherri, Brad, Mark, Matthew and Micah Lowrance; Randy, David and
John Darst.

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The above bio was by Juanita Sloan Lowrance and the bottom bio is by her sister, Barbara Sloan Darst.
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OUR FATHER REALLY LIKED THIS SONG

♫"Cathy's Clown"♫

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Orval Sloan worked at the Rice Stix Factory in Lebanon, Mo. He also owned a grocery store; ran the Lunch Box Cafe and the Dixie Creme Donut Shop in Lebanon, Mo. He later drove a taxi cab in Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. One morning as Orval was going to work at Ft. Leonard Wood, a soldier driving his car, crashed into the back of Orval's car. The passenger riding with Orval, pulled him out just before the car burst into flames. They were taken to the Ft. Leonard Wood Hospital.

His last job was working as a Police Dispatcher at the Lebanon Police Department in Lebanon, Mo. Orval's sister-in-law, Lily Mae Fairchild Alexander Tremain, got him that job. She was a Police Dispatcher for several years and when she quit, she got Orval on. He was working there when he got lung cancer and passed away.

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THE RECORDING OF A CEMETERY BY THELMA GREENE REAGAN

Today we walked where others walked
On a lonely, windswept hill.

Today we talked where others cried
For loved ones whose lives are stilled.

Today our hearts were touched
By graves of tiny babies
Snatched from the arms of loving kin
In the heartbreak of the ages.

Today we saw where GRANDPARENTS lay
In the last sleep of their time
Lying under the trees and clouds
Their beds kissed by the sun and wind.

Today we wondered about an unmarked spot
Who lies beneath this hollowed ground?
Was it a babe, child, young or old?
No indication could be found.

Today we saw where MOM and DAD lay
We had been here once before
On a day we'd all like to forget
But will remember forever more.

Today we recorded for kith and kin
The graves of ancestors past
To be preserved for generations hence
A record we hope will last.

Cherish it, my friend; preserve it, my friend,
For stones sometimes crumble to dust
And generations of folks yet to come
Will be grateful for your trust.

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