Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Slocum, Orson W. 1943
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Monday, September 27, 1943

Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock at the home, 8 
Wager Place, for Orson W. Slocum, 73, who died Saturday afternoon, September 
25.  Mr. Slocum had been suffering for some time from a heart ailment, but 
spent the summer at his cottage at Spider lake, near Traverse City.  There he 
was stricken with a severe heart attack, and was brought to his home here two 
weeks ago by ambulance, and had continued to grow weaker until his death.

Mr. Slocum had been a resident of Ionia for 39 years, coming here as 
commercial manager of the Ionia-Portland-Saranac-Belding and Greenville area 
of the Bell Telephone company.  He served the Ionia district until his 
retirement nine years ago.  He had been associated with the Michigan Bell 
Telephone company for 42 years, starting as line construction foreman, and 
having supervision of the construction of long distance telephone lines from 
Bay City to Alpena, which gave Alpena its first out-of-town telephone 
communication on January 30, 1903.

Since his retirement he has devoted much of his time to horticulture, 
especially the propagation of dahlias and gladioluses.  He has gained national 
recognition through originating the “Burt Foraker” and “Son of Satan” dahlias, 
which still enjoy the coast-to-coast attention of dahlia hobbyists.

He had devoted much time and travel as a dahlia judge, serving at many flower 
shows in the east and middle west. 

Mr. Slocum was born in New Haven in 1870.  He had long been familiarly known 
to his friends as “Tiny.”

Surviving him are his wife, Eadon; one daughter, Mrs. Alice Mulbarger, of 
Indianapolis, and one son, Orson (Bud), jr., of Roscommon, who is chief radio 
engineer for the Michigan conservation-state police radio system.

Subsequent Publication:  Wednesday, September 29, 1943

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home, 8 Wager 
Place, for Orson W. Slocum, 73, who died Saturday afternoon.  Rev. George 
Woolcock, pastor of the First Baptist church officiating and burial was in the 
family lot in Highland Park cemetery.

In charge of floral arrangements were Mrs. Paul Stamson, sr. and Mrs. Fred 
Blasen.  Pallbearers were Daniel J. Campau, Foster L. Huber, Chandler Haight, 
sr., Paul Stamsen, sr., Bert Partridge and Russell Gais.


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