Mrs. Mary Slocum
War Bride, Dies
CROWN POINT--A 21-year-old war bride, Mrs. Mary Slocum, wife of Lt. Edwin Slocum, air corps officer stationed at Marianna Field, Fla., died Monday in a Marianna hospital shortly after giving birth to a son. She had gone to Marianna to be near her husband.
She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Dance and had lived in Crown Point all her life before going to Florida. Funeral arrangements are incomplete pending arrival of the body in Crown Point.
Survivors besides her parents, husband and son are one sister, Miss Cleo Dance, Crown Point and six brothers, William Grover, stationed with the army in North Africa; Orville, of Elkhart, Ind.; Luther, who lives in Connecticut; Arthur, Eugene and Gerald, Crown Point.
Published in The Times (Munster, IN), on Wednesday, July 21, 1943, pg. 19.
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Rites Held For
Mrs. Mary Slocum
MARIANNA, July 24.--(Special.)--Funeral services have been held in the Post Chapel at Marianna Army Air Field for Mrs. Mary Betty Slocum, 20, whose death occurred here early this week. Officiating was Chaplain E. W. Richards, and pallbearers were Captain Milton B. Glessner, Lt. Francis J. McIntyre, Lt. John P. Glaws, Lt. LeRoy P. Shuler, Lt. Fred J. Wynne and Flight Officer Herbert T. Lalliott. Surviving are her husband, Lt. Edwin Slocum and infant son, Rex Vaenar; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grover Dance and a sister, Miss Cleo Dance, of Crown Point, Indiana; six brothers, Orville of Elkhart, Ind.; Arthur, Eugene and Gerald of Crown Point; Luther, USN, Norodom Heights, Conn., and Bill, USA Paratroops, in North Africa. Arrangements were directed by Sanaree and Neal, and following arrival of the body at Crown Point, funeral services were held in the First Presbyterian church of which Mrs. Slocum was a member.
Published in the Pensacola News Journal (Pensacola, FL), on Sunday, July 25, 1943, pg. 8.
War Bride, Dies
CROWN POINT--A 21-year-old war bride, Mrs. Mary Slocum, wife of Lt. Edwin Slocum, air corps officer stationed at Marianna Field, Fla., died Monday in a Marianna hospital shortly after giving birth to a son. She had gone to Marianna to be near her husband.
She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Dance and had lived in Crown Point all her life before going to Florida. Funeral arrangements are incomplete pending arrival of the body in Crown Point.
Survivors besides her parents, husband and son are one sister, Miss Cleo Dance, Crown Point and six brothers, William Grover, stationed with the army in North Africa; Orville, of Elkhart, Ind.; Luther, who lives in Connecticut; Arthur, Eugene and Gerald, Crown Point.
Published in The Times (Munster, IN), on Wednesday, July 21, 1943, pg. 19.
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Rites Held For
Mrs. Mary Slocum
MARIANNA, July 24.--(Special.)--Funeral services have been held in the Post Chapel at Marianna Army Air Field for Mrs. Mary Betty Slocum, 20, whose death occurred here early this week. Officiating was Chaplain E. W. Richards, and pallbearers were Captain Milton B. Glessner, Lt. Francis J. McIntyre, Lt. John P. Glaws, Lt. LeRoy P. Shuler, Lt. Fred J. Wynne and Flight Officer Herbert T. Lalliott. Surviving are her husband, Lt. Edwin Slocum and infant son, Rex Vaenar; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grover Dance and a sister, Miss Cleo Dance, of Crown Point, Indiana; six brothers, Orville of Elkhart, Ind.; Arthur, Eugene and Gerald of Crown Point; Luther, USN, Norodom Heights, Conn., and Bill, USA Paratroops, in North Africa. Arrangements were directed by Sanaree and Neal, and following arrival of the body at Crown Point, funeral services were held in the First Presbyterian church of which Mrs. Slocum was a member.
Published in the Pensacola News Journal (Pensacola, FL), on Sunday, July 25, 1943, pg. 8.
Mrs. Mary Slocum
War Bride, Dies
CROWN POINT--A 21-year-old war bride, Mrs. Mary Slocum, wife of Lt. Edwin Slocum, air corps officer stationed at Marianna Field, Fla., died Monday in a Marianna hospital shortly after giving birth to a son. She had gone to Marianna to be near her husband.
She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Dance and had lived in Crown Point all her life before going to Florida. Funeral arrangements are incomplete pending arrival of the body in Crown Point.
Survivors besides her parents, husband and son are one sister, Miss Cleo Dance, Crown Point and six brothers, William Grover, stationed with the army in North Africa; Orville, of Elkhart, Ind.; Luther, who lives in Connecticut; Arthur, Eugene and Gerald, Crown Point.
Published in The Times (Munster, IN), on Wednesday, July 21, 1943, pg. 19.
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Rites Held For
Mrs. Mary Slocum
MARIANNA, July 24.--(Special.)--Funeral services have been held in the Post Chapel at Marianna Army Air Field for Mrs. Mary Betty Slocum, 20, whose death occurred here early this week. Officiating was Chaplain E. W. Richards, and pallbearers were Captain Milton B. Glessner, Lt. Francis J. McIntyre, Lt. John P. Glaws, Lt. LeRoy P. Shuler, Lt. Fred J. Wynne and Flight Officer Herbert T. Lalliott. Surviving are her husband, Lt. Edwin Slocum and infant son, Rex Vaenar; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grover Dance and a sister, Miss Cleo Dance, of Crown Point, Indiana; six brothers, Orville of Elkhart, Ind.; Arthur, Eugene and Gerald of Crown Point; Luther, USN, Norodom Heights, Conn., and Bill, USA Paratroops, in North Africa. Arrangements were directed by Sanaree and Neal, and following arrival of the body at Crown Point, funeral services were held in the First Presbyterian church of which Mrs. Slocum was a member.
Published in the Pensacola News Journal (Pensacola, FL), on Sunday, July 25, 1943, pg. 8.
War Bride, Dies
CROWN POINT--A 21-year-old war bride, Mrs. Mary Slocum, wife of Lt. Edwin Slocum, air corps officer stationed at Marianna Field, Fla., died Monday in a Marianna hospital shortly after giving birth to a son. She had gone to Marianna to be near her husband.
She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Dance and had lived in Crown Point all her life before going to Florida. Funeral arrangements are incomplete pending arrival of the body in Crown Point.
Survivors besides her parents, husband and son are one sister, Miss Cleo Dance, Crown Point and six brothers, William Grover, stationed with the army in North Africa; Orville, of Elkhart, Ind.; Luther, who lives in Connecticut; Arthur, Eugene and Gerald, Crown Point.
Published in The Times (Munster, IN), on Wednesday, July 21, 1943, pg. 19.
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Rites Held For
Mrs. Mary Slocum
MARIANNA, July 24.--(Special.)--Funeral services have been held in the Post Chapel at Marianna Army Air Field for Mrs. Mary Betty Slocum, 20, whose death occurred here early this week. Officiating was Chaplain E. W. Richards, and pallbearers were Captain Milton B. Glessner, Lt. Francis J. McIntyre, Lt. John P. Glaws, Lt. LeRoy P. Shuler, Lt. Fred J. Wynne and Flight Officer Herbert T. Lalliott. Surviving are her husband, Lt. Edwin Slocum and infant son, Rex Vaenar; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grover Dance and a sister, Miss Cleo Dance, of Crown Point, Indiana; six brothers, Orville of Elkhart, Ind.; Arthur, Eugene and Gerald of Crown Point; Luther, USN, Norodom Heights, Conn., and Bill, USA Paratroops, in North Africa. Arrangements were directed by Sanaree and Neal, and following arrival of the body at Crown Point, funeral services were held in the First Presbyterian church of which Mrs. Slocum was a member.
Published in the Pensacola News Journal (Pensacola, FL), on Sunday, July 25, 1943, pg. 8.
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