1951
Samuel
2013
Samuel "Sam" Slocum
July 18, 1951 — August 18, 2013
Samuel Monroe “Sam” Slocum, 62, died Sunday, August 18, 2013, at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, MS. Visitation is from 5pm.-8pm. Tues. Aug. 20, 2013 at Ott & Lee Funeral Home in Richland, MS and 9am Wednesday, August 21, 2013 until the 10:30am Service at Star Baptist Church. Interment will follow in Star Cemetery.
Sam was a lifelong resident of Star, MS and was employed as a sheet metal worker at Pooley Company. He loved the outdoors especially hunting, fishing and training dogs for hunting.
Survivors include his wife, Sherii Slocum of Star; children, Payton Slocum of Brandon, MS and Wesley Slocum (Kathy) of Mize, MS; father, Wilbur Slocum of Star, MS; sisters, Jean Slocum Flurry (Dennis) of Jackson, LA and Anita Slocum Powell (Bubba) of Brandon, MS; brother, Charles Herman Slocum (Dianne) of Florence; 3 grandchildren: Bethany Ross, Addison Cathryn Slocum and Mary Hadley Slocum. He was preceded in death by his mother, Irene Laird Slocum.
Memorials may be made to Blair E. Batson Children’s Research, 2500 N. State St, Jackson, MS 39216.
Sam was a lifelong resident of Star, MS and was employed as a sheet metal worker at Pooley Company. He loved the outdoors especially hunting, fishing and training dogs for hunting.
Survivors include his wife, Sherii Slocum of Star; children, Payton Slocum of Brandon, MS and Wesley Slocum (Kathy) of Mize, MS; father, Wilbur Slocum of Star, MS; sisters, Jean Slocum Flurry (Dennis) of Jackson, LA and Anita Slocum Powell (Bubba) of Brandon, MS; brother, Charles Herman Slocum (Dianne) of Florence; 3 grandchildren: Bethany Ross, Addison Cathryn Slocum and Mary Hadley Slocum. He was preceded in death by his mother, Irene Laird Slocum.
Memorials may be made to Blair E. Batson Children’s Research, 2500 N. State St, Jackson, MS 39216.
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