Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Slocum, Eadon 1953
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Monday, February 2, 1953


Mrs. O. W. Slocum, 75, widow of Ionia’s first Michigan Bell Telephone branch 
office manager, died suddenly Sunday evening when she collapsed in a service 
station north of Ionia.

Mrs. Slocum, who lived at 8 Wagar Place, was driving her car when she became 
ill.  Halting at a service station at Woods Corners, Mrs. Slocum complained to 
the attendant that she could not see through the windshield although the 
attendant said the glass was clear.  Coroner Wallace H. Jackson of Ionia said 
Mrs. Slocum collapsed shortly after and died.  He said she appeared to have 
suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.

Mrs. Slocum, who had always been active, had lived on Wagar place for many 
years.  Her telephone number had always been No. 1 on the Ionia exchange.

She was born in England August 7, 1877, coming to this country when a child.  
She moved to Adrian where she married O. W. Slocum.  He died in 1943.  She was 
a member of the St. John’s Episcopal church and the Ronald Willing Workers.  

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Francis Mulbarger, of Indianapolis, Ind., and 
three grandchildren. A son, Bud, died in 1947.

Funeral service will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m.at the Stone-Kauffman funeral 
home. Interment will be in Highland Park cemetery.  The family will be at the 
funeral home 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday to receive friends.

Subsequent Publication:  Thursday, February 5, 1953

Funeral services for Mrs. Eadon Slocum who died Sunday were held at the Stone-
Kauffman funeral home Wednesday afternoon by the Rev. Fr. Roger Bunday.

Bearers were George Seidelman, Francis Gais, Chandler Haight, Sr., Chandler 
Haight, Jr., Kenneth McKee, and Voris Forshee.  Interment was in Highland Park 
cemetery.

Attending the services were Mr. and Mrs. Francis Mulbarger and Mr. and Mrs. 
John Culley of Indianapolis, Ind., Miss Nancy Slocum of Battle Creek; Mrs. W. 
G. Gidley of Leamington, Ont.; Mrs. Harvey Tompson, Mr. and Mrs. Norman 
Tompson, Mrs. Dorothy Deer and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tompson of Adrian; Dr. Frank 
Tompson, Mr. and Mrs. Rene Mosgrove, and Mrs. Edith Nemitz of Detroit and Mr. 
and Mrs. Francis Gais and Mr. Gais of Belding.



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