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Wilbur Free Slane

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Wilbur Free Slane

Birth
Jubilee Township, Peoria County, Illinois, USA
Death
21 Jul 1969 (aged 72)
Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Princeville, Peoria County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Free Slane of rural Princeville, 72, passed away at 12:50 a.m. Monday, July 21, in the Methodist Hospital in Peoria where he was admitted July 13.
He was born in Jubilee Township May 9, 1897, the son of Edgar P. and Amelia Bale Slane and he married Ruth Friedman in Princeville December 18, 1918.
She survives with two sons; Ronald and Robert of Princeville; three daughters, Mrs. Florence Shaw of Bradford, Mrs. Marjorie Romane of Kickapoo, and Mrs. Betty Steele of Pascagoula, Miss.; fifteen grandchildren; and three nephews.
A son, Wilbur “Bill” Slane and a brother Ben preceded him in death.
A lifelong resident of the Princeville-Jubilee community, his interests in sports and young people of the community kept him young in spirit and a friend to all.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. in Bouton Memorial Home Wednesday with Rev. Ernest Fernandes officiating. Burial was in the Princeville Cemetery.

Wyoming Post Herald, July 23, 1969.

Transcribed and submitted by Ethel.
Free Slane of rural Princeville, 72, passed away at 12:50 a.m. Monday, July 21, in the Methodist Hospital in Peoria where he was admitted July 13.
He was born in Jubilee Township May 9, 1897, the son of Edgar P. and Amelia Bale Slane and he married Ruth Friedman in Princeville December 18, 1918.
She survives with two sons; Ronald and Robert of Princeville; three daughters, Mrs. Florence Shaw of Bradford, Mrs. Marjorie Romane of Kickapoo, and Mrs. Betty Steele of Pascagoula, Miss.; fifteen grandchildren; and three nephews.
A son, Wilbur “Bill” Slane and a brother Ben preceded him in death.
A lifelong resident of the Princeville-Jubilee community, his interests in sports and young people of the community kept him young in spirit and a friend to all.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. in Bouton Memorial Home Wednesday with Rev. Ernest Fernandes officiating. Burial was in the Princeville Cemetery.

Wyoming Post Herald, July 23, 1969.

Transcribed and submitted by Ethel.


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