Walter Frank SLOSSON

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• Census: 1930, living with parents in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California

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Obituary Notice - Los Angeles Time - May 6, 1959

WALTER F. SLOSSON

Funeral services for Walter F. Slosson, 31, attorney on the staff of the Los Angeles county public defender's office, will be conducted today at 1 p.m. in Pierce Bros. Monterey Park Chapel, followed by interment in Live Oak Cemetery. born in Los Angeles, Mr. Slosson lived at 338 N. New Hampshire Ave. and was killed in an automobile accident Friday. He leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Slosson, and a sister, Margery Cline.

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• Military Service: Army - World War I
• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Colorado Springs, El Paso Co., Colorado
• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1920, Living with mother in Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1930, Living in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California

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"George Slawson: An American Pioneer" by Harold Dye Slosson - While attending Monrovia High School, harold had worked on the ranches of that area during summer vacations to obtain needed money. he had even been a "teamster" - driving horses and mules over the Mojave Desert. His aim was to be a great rancher.....Obedient to both parents' wishes, and encouraged by his sister Jane, harold majored in chemistry, graduating from the University of Southern California in 1921.
An interruption came when he was in the army in World War I. During World War II he served in the California State Guard. Later he became a radiological monitor, and now is a fallout shelter analyst under the Department of Defense.
Over a forty-nine year period, harold was associated with the same chemical manufacturing company, now a national concern, the Filtrol Corporation. Early he had been their chief chemist, and served in other technical capacities. He is a professional engineer in chemical engineering, and a member emeritus of the American Chemical Society.
In 1924 he married Margaret Thayer, whose parents were old-timers in Los Angeles. Margaret, a graduate of the University of Clifornia at Berkeley, and the U.S.C. School of Library Science, was then employed in the Los Angeles Library. Their two children were Walter and Margery. Walter, a deputy public defender for Los Angeles County, was full of promise in the legal and social service fields. In May, 1959, when going to a conference, however, he was struck down in a traffic accident. On a public mission, the young defender lost his life.
The Harold Slossons were active in PTA, Red Cross, Boy Scouts, and other commnity affairs in their area. They are charter members of the Neighborhood Covenant Church, and also members of the San Gabriel Historical Society. On June 30, 1974, they celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary, with some 250 friends and relatives from five counties attending their reception.
Now retired in South San Gabriel, harold and Margaret live in a small home on an acre of land acquired in 1935, when it was country.....

Harold married Margaret Field THAYER on 30 Jun 1924 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. Margaret was born on 25 Aug 1899 in California; died on 19 Jan 1991 in Salinas, Monterey County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of John Stearns and Carrie (Field) Thayer
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California

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Mrs. Carrie E. Thayer
Funeral services for Mrs. Carrie E. Thayer, 78, past president of California Federation of Women's Clubs, will be conducted today at 10 a.m. at the W.A. Brown & Son Funeral Home Chapel, to be followed by inurnment in the Chapel of the Pines.
A native of St. Helena, Mrs. Thayer, who lived at 603 N. Garfield Ave., Monterey Park, died Friday. She leaves thee daughters, Mrs. Margaret Slosson, Mrs. Elinor Walters and Mrs. Elizabeth Reed, and a son, John W. Thayer.

Posted May 13, 1951 and May 16, 1951