OBITUARY: Minnie LaBell Griffin Sloan, 1886-1931, Mitchell Co., Iowa



                     Minnie LaBell Griffin Sloan

The communities of Bailey and McIntire this week have occasion for
sorrow.  After a sudden and intense illness, Mrs. Sloan passed away
at her home February 21, 1931, at 5:30 pm.  Until the week of her
sickness Mrs. Sloan enjoyed the best of health.  Her sudden departure
has come as a distinct shock to her many relatives and friends.

Mrs. Sloan's death is the first break in a family of ten children,
of whom she was the second.  Mrs. Sloan, formerly Miss Minnie LaBell
Griffin, was born on the LaBell Ranch, near Madison, South Dakota,
July 5, 1886.  The family then moved to Taopi, Minnesota, and later
to a farm near Bailey.

In the summer of 1909 she was married to Mr. Riley Sloan, of Bailey.
Immediately after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Sloan lived in North
Dakota for a period of years, during which time five of the children
were born.  In the fall of 1918 the family returned to Bailey, Iowa.
Here another girl was born.

Mrs. Sloan enjoyed a happy family life in her home, and her influence
was strongly felt in the Baptist church in which she was cheerfully
active.

Among those of the relatives to mourn her death are: her father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Griffin, and nine brothers and sisters,
as follows: Orville Griffin, White Earth, North Dakota; Mrs. Myrtle
Combs, Glasgow, Montana; Stanley Griffin, Altura, Minnesota; Ada
Parr, Bailey, Iowa; Mrs. Hazel Hill, Little Cedar, Iowa; Gilbert
Griffin, Empire, Minnesota; Elmo Griffin, Bailey, Iowa; Lee Griffin,
Bismarck, North Dakota; Miss Leola Griffin, Bailey, Iowa.  In addition
to these are her husband, Riley Sloan, and six children: Jerome,
Russel, Elsie, Eldon, Robert and Mavis.

The heart-felt sympathy of the whole community is extended to Mr.
Sloan and the family in their bereavement..



   Copyright 2004, Merri Cross

   Note: I am not a relation, just found the obituary in a scrapbook.
   The year pencilled in on the margin is 1931.