OBIT: Vernie Virginia (HIGGINS) SLAYTON, 2002, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed and proofread by Nancy Lorz Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ SLAYTON Vernie Virginia Slayton, 79, of 262 Romania Road, Meyersdale, died Oct. 18, 2002, at her residence. Born Jan. 11, 1923, in Mill Creek, W.Va., she is a daughter of the late Darr and Susan Higgins. She was preceded in death by her husband, George W. Slayton Sr., Sept. 2, 1976 and a son Arthur J. Slayton, in 1973. She is survived by one son, George W., Slayton, Jr. and wife Diane, Salisbury; two daughters, Mary Baughman, Somerset and Betty Noble and husband, Gary, Ocala, Fla.; 16 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. Friends will be received 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Newman Funeral Home, Inc., 9168 Mason-Dixon Hwy., Salisbury, where services will be conducted at 12 p.m. Sunday with Pastor John Yodel officiating. Interment, Salisbury Cemetery. Expression of sympathy may be directed to In Touch Hospice. Daily American, October 19, 2002 [S1907]