1. | Homer Don SLAWSON was born on 10 Jan 1896 in Janesville, Wisconsin; died in Nov 1964 in Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin. Notes:
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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.
Received by Joe Chester
dtd April 2012
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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- 2. Homer Don SLAWSON was born on 17 Oct 1918 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; died on 12 Apr 1944 in Killed in action in Pacific; was buried in Oahu, Hawaii.
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