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Lucille Wallace Slater

1927 – 14 Sep 2022

Birth1927
Death14 Sep 2022
CemeterySweetwater Cemetery
Sweetwater , Nolan County , Texas , USA
Added byJanie Healer Davis on 16 Sep 2022
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/243600147

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Smallwood, Wallace family lot buried next to her husband

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Lucille Wallace Slater September 13, 2022 U.S. Veteran Lucille Wallace Slater passed away September 14, 2022 at Goldcrest Nursing Home in the Bronx, New York. She was 95. Graveside services will be held 10:00 A.M. Thursday, September 22, 2022 at Sweetwater Cemetery with Rev. Larry Holder officiating. Interment will follow under the direction of McCoy Funeral Home. A native of Haskell, Texas, she is the daughter of Albert and Florence Wallace. When Mrs. Slater was seven years old her mother died suddenly and the family of four boys and two girls had to be split up. She was adopted by Reverend Louis Smallwood and his wife Zoe (Black) Smallwood, of Hamlin Texas. She graduated from Hamlin High School as Valedictorian. Following graduation she assisted in the war effort, serving as a flight recorder at the United States Army Air Force Base in Pyote, Texas. After the war, she continued her education at McMurry College in Abilene, Texas, graduating with a BA in English. While at McMurry she met her beloved husband, Cecil Shirley Slater. Her husband's career as a land man in the oil and gas business took them all around the Southwest before settling in Oklahoma City. Following the birth of their two sons, Timothy and Westley, Mrs. Slater was a homemaker, den mother, a devout member of the Village United Methodist Church and owned her own business for several years. She and Cecil eventually followed their son Tim and daughter-in-law Deborah to upstate New York, where she was a gentle and loving presence in the lives of her grandchildren Ben and Erin. She was predeceased in death by her husband, Cecil and son, Timothy. She is survived by her son, Westley and his wife Melanie; daughter-in-law, Deborah and husband Alan; grandchildren, Benjamin and Erin; and three great-grandchildren, Olive, Timmy and Rebecca. From online memorials, McCoy Funeral Home, Sweetwater, Texas *************

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