Harry Douglas SLAUSON

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• Census: 1930, Living with parents in South Fork, Delaware Co., Iowa
• Census: 1940, Living with parents in South Fork, Delaware Co., Iowa

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WATERLOO DAILY COURIER
Waterloo, Iowa, Friday, June 15, 1945, page 5

Navy Man on Leave
Accident Victim

HENRY SLAUSON
OF SAND SPRINGS
KILLED IN CRASH

Bridge Rail Goes Through
Car; Girl Friend Has
Minor Hurts.

Manchester, Ia. - Henry Douglas Slauson, 24, of Sand Springs, Ia., in southeast Delaware county, aviation ordnance man second class. USNR, home on furlough, was instantly killed in an automobile accident at 4 a.m. Friday town miles east of Sand Springs.
He was returning from a dance at Worthington with Miss Phyllis DeShaw. At the point where the accident occurred there are two bridges.
Slauson's car passed safely over the first one, when apparently the machine went out of control and crashed into the guard rail of the second bridge. About 10 feet of the rail was torn off, went through the windshield and struck the navy man in the head, fracturing his skull.
Miss DeShaw, who suffered only minor injuries, went to a nearby farm home for help.
Slauson was the son of Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Slauson of Sand Springs.
Sheriff Carl Anderson of Manchester and Arthur G. Platt, Delaware county coroner, investigated the accident and Platt said there will not be an inquest.
Slauson's body was taken to the Hoover funeral home at Hopkinton.

Given by: Joe Chester

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• Census: 1900, Living with parents in South Fork, Delaware Co., Iowa
• Census: 1910, Living with parents in South Fork, Delaware Co., Iowa
• Census: 1920, Living in South Fork, Delaware Co., Iowa
• Census: 1930, Living in South Fork, Delaware Co., Iowa
• Census: 1940, Living in South Fork, Delaware Co., Iowa
• Census: 1950, Living in South Fork, Delaware Co., Iowa

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THE MONTICELLO EXPRESS
Monticello, Iowa
Thursday, Oct. 1, 1959

OBITUARIES

ROY A. SLAUSON

HOPKINTON--Roy A. Slauson, 72, a retired farmer of the Sand Springs area who has made his hoe in Hopkinton for seven years, died Sunday morning at 6 a.m. in the Monticello hospital, following a long illness. He had been hospitalized two days.
Funeral services were held at St. Luke's Ctholic Church, Tuesday morning at 9:30 a.m. Rev. Leo O'Connell officiated. Burial was in Sacred Heart cemetery at Monticello.
Born on a farm east of Sand Springs, Jan. 12, 1887, he was a son of pioneer settlers Douglas and Alice Cummings Slauson. He attended Lenox college in Hopkinton and the Cedar Rapids business college, and was employed by a Cedar Rapids implement dealer for three years.
He married Marion Egan of Monticello, April 30, 1912 and made their home on the parental Slauson farm for 40 years, retiring to Hopkinton, in 1952. They were the parents of nine children.
A son, Harry, a naval veteran was killed in an automobile accident in 1945, while home on leave.
Surviving are his wife, three sons, Louis, Hopkinton; Duane, Greeley; and Donald, Cedar Rapids; five daughters, Velma, Mrs. John White, Worthington; May, Mrs. Joe Gudenkauf and Grace, Mrs. Louis Gudenkauf, both of Hopkinton; Marie, Mrs. Louis Stevens, Dyersville; Joyce, Mrs. Russell Tenley, Olin; and 36 grandchildren. Also thee brother, Vernon Slauson, Texas; Claude and Ed Slauson, both of Williamsburg VA.; and one sister, Mrs. Irene Gilliam of Texas.
He was a member of St. Luke's Catholic Church and Holy Name society.


Given by: Joe Chester

Roy married Marion EGAN on 30 Apr 1912 in Monticello, Iowa. Marion was born on 01 Oct 1894 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania; died on 22 Jul 1984 in Monticello, Jones Co., Iowa; was buried in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Monticello, Jones Co., Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Thomas Egan and Mary McCullough
• Census: 1920, Living with husband in South Fork, Delaware Co., Iowa
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in South Fork, Delaware Co., Iowa
• Census: 1940, Living with husband in South Fork, Delaware Co., Iowa
• Census: 1950, Living with husband in South Fork, Delaware Co., Iowa