Sunday's Obituary: Bobbie Leora (Brandon) Sloane

Obituary Notice for

BOBBIE SLOANE

CARTHAGE-- Funeral services for Bobbie Leora Brandon Sloane, 80, of Carthage, who died November 29, 1997, at her home, are scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at Carthage Church of God in Christ with Elder Frank Phillips Sr. officiating. Burial will be in Bethel Cemetery at Carthage by Brown-Williams Funeral Home of Fordyce.

        She was born on March 1, 1917, at Carthage, a daughter of the late George Brandon and Ella Brandon.

        She was a member of Carthage Church of God in Christ, where she was a deaconess, YPWW teacher and the treasurer of Bible Books.

        She was preceded in death by her husband, Henry Sloane.

        Survivors include three sons, a daughter; a brother; three sisters; a stepdaughter; 18 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

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PINE BLUFF COMMERICAL  MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1997

Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas

Headstone for Bobbie Brandon Sloane at
Bethel Cemetery, Carthage,
Dallas County, Arkansas- Taken on 20 Sept 2002

Double headstone with her husband Henry "Duke" Sloane

Bobbie's Obituary was the first obituary I located when I first started my genealogical journey. I was at first unsure if she was a relative of mine, since the last name was spelled different from my own. I emailed my dad a copy of this email and he said, "that until the family moved to California in the early 1940s; they spelled out surname with an e."