Frances Sybil HOLLOWAY

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• Fact: Daughter of LeRoy F. and Janey (Spaulding) Holloway

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JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE

Tuesday, June 8, 1920, page 5

OBITUARY

Mrs. Frances Sybil Slawson

Mrs. Frances Slawson, 52, a resident of Janesville all her life, passed away at 1:10 o'clock this afternoon at her home, 535 South Main Street. She had been suffering for six weeks with heart disease.
Frances Sybil Holloway was born in this city January 31, 1868, receiving her education in the public schools here. She married Homer H. Slawson, who died in 1899. To this union were born three children, two of whom survive, homer Don, Janesville, and Robert S., Chicago. A daughter, Mrs. Fred Zentner died of influenza-pneumonia in the fall of 1918.
Besides her children she leaves to mourn her death, her father, L.F. Holloway, this city; a grandson, Homer Don, Jr., four brothers, D.C. and C.F. Hollaway, Chicago, L.O., Fond du Lac, and F.M. Troy, Pa.; and three sisters, Mrs. Horace Shedd, Providence R.I.; Mrs. William Martin, Seattle, Wash.; and Mrs. Herbert Skeels, Sullivan, O.

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Family/Spouse: Homer Harry SLAWSON. Homer (son of Sullivan S. SLAWSON and Jane DEMERRITT) was born in Feb 1868 in Janesville, Wisconsin; died on 31 Dec 1899 in Janesville, Wisconsin; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Janesville, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE
Monday, Nov. 16, 1964, page 2

OBITUARIES

HOMER DON SLAWSON

Homer Don Slawson, 68, 532 S. Main St., who operated antique shops in Chicago and Janesville for 39 years, died Sunday morning in Mercy Hospital where he was admitted Saturday. He had suffered a heart attack June 11.

Born in Janesville, Jan. 10, 1896, he was the son of Homer and Frances Holloway Slawson. He attended Janesville schools, including Janesville Business College and also a Chicago school. He worked in the office of the old Janesville Machine Co. and its successor, the Samson Tractor Co., Janesville, until entering the antiques business.

Mr. Slawson and Ella Jacobson were married in Chicago Oct. 6, 1917.

He was predeceased by his parents, one sister and a son, Lt. Homer Don Slawson, AFS pilot and plane commander who lost his life in combat in the South Pacific theater April 12, 1944.

Surviving are his wife; a daughter-in-law, Mrs. katherine Lindholm Slawson, Rockford; cousins, nieces and nephews.

Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Wolfgram Funeral Home, the Rev. Sidney J. Francis, First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be in Oak hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home tuesday evening.

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Homer married Ella JACOBSON on 06 Oct 1917 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. Ella was born on 08 Jan 1895; died in Sep 1983 in Edgerton, Rock County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Eileen Elizabeth LAPPIN on 30 Apr 1921 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. Eileen was born on 19 May 1897; died on 09 Feb 1991 in Panorama City, Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Janey married Frederick ZENTNERWisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]