Homer Don SLAWSON

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• Military Service: Army Air Corps - World War II

Homer married Katherine LANDHOLM in Jan 1942 in Rockford, Illinois. [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]

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• Fact: Daughter of Andrew and Anna Marie (Kamerud) Jacobson

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THE DAILY GAZETTE
Janesville, Wisconsin
Tuesday, january 2, 1900, page 5

DEMISE OF HOMER SLAWSON

Homer H. Slawson

Homer H. Slawson died Sunday evening at his home. 152 Milton Avenue. Mr. Slawson was taken ill several weeks ago as the result of stomach trouble. His illness soon took a turn for the worse and he was obliged to take to his bed. By the death of this young man Janesville loses one respected by a large circle of friends.

Mr. Slawson was employed as bookkeeper at the Janesville Machine Works and was thirty-four years of age. He leaves a wife and three small children. to the bereaved ones the tenderest of sympathies will be extended. Funeral services will be held from the home tomorrow afternoon.

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Homer married Frances Sybil HOLLOWAY. Frances was born on 30 Jan 1868; died in Jun 1928 in Janesville, Wisconsin; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Janesville, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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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Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1834, New York, USA
• Census: 1850, Living with father in Harmony, Rock County, Wisconsin

Sullivan married Jane DEMERRITTJanesville, Rock County, Wisconsin. Jane was born on 22 May 1837; died on 12 Jan 1890 in Janesville, Wisconsin; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Janesville, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]