Frances Slosson HOLLIDAY

Female Abt 1911 - 1972  (61 years)


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  • Name Frances Slosson HOLLIDAY  [1, 2
    Birth Abt 1911  Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Census 1920  Living with parents in Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Census 1930  Living with parents in Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Death 07 Oct 1972  El Djem, Tunisia Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Notes 
    • Ancestry.com - Historical Newspapers; Birth, Marriages & death Announcements, 1851-2003 - New York -

      MEMORIAL SERVICE TODAY FOR MRS. METCALFE WALLING

      A memorial service will be held at 7:30 P.M. today at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Bedford, New York for Mrs. Frances Slosson Holliday Walling, the wife of L. Metcalfe Walling, director for North Africa of the International Executive Service Corps.
      Mrs. Walling drowned in a flash flood in El Djem, Tunisia, Oct. 7. She and her husband had been traveling with their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander R.H. Walling. Mrs. Metcalfe Walling, who was 62 years old, was the only victim.
      Mrs. Walling, a graduate of Smith College, in recent years had been in charge of the American Field Service program for exchange students in Ghana and earlier had represented The Associated Press and The United Press in Guinea.
      Besides her husband and son, she leaves a sister, Mrs. Warman Welliver, and a brother, Alexander R. Holliday. An older son, Lewis Metcalfe Walling Jr., was killed in Vietnam in 1962.
    Person ID I29243  Main Tree
    Last Modified 1 Feb 2013 

    Father Alexander Rieman HOLLIDAY,   b. 13 Aug 1877, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Oct 1931, Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years) 
    Mother Agnes SLOSSON,   b. 20 May 1881, Kenosha, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Aug 1956, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Marriage 1907  [5
    Family ID F17237  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Lewis Metcalf WALLING,   b. 22 Dec 1908   d. 21 Jan 1997 (Age 88 years) 
    Children 
     1. Lewis Metcalfe WALLING, Jr.,   b. 1939, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Feb 1962, Vietnam Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 23 years)  [Birth]
     2. Alexander R.H. WALLING  [Birth]
    Family ID F17238  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S01280] 1920 Census Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana.

    2. [S02841] Obituary Notice for Lewis Metcalf Walling.

    3. [S01514] 1930 Census Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana.

    4. [S02821] Obituary Notice for Frances Slosson Holliday Walling.

    5. [S03336] Slason-Slauson-Slawson-Slosson Family by George C. Slawson dated 1946.