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Florence Slightom

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[February 14, 2017]  Florence Slightom passed away quietly in Springfield Memorial Hospital on Friday, February 10. She was born on February 28, 1921, to Charles Paul and Mary (Steagall) O’Neal in Ozark, Illinois.

Service: A small memorial service with just immediate family is planned for the future.

Funeral home: Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, Lincoln   

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Florence Slightom passed away quietly in Springfield Memorial Hospital on Friday, February 10. She was born on February 28, 1921, to Charles Paul and Mary (Steagall) O’Neal in Ozark, Illinois.

Florence was married to Dr. John Slightom, former optometrist and mayor of Harrisburg. They spent many years raising their children there. She was active in the local chapter of P.E.O., the First Baptist Church choir, and many other community and social groups.

Mrs. Slightom received her B.S. in Education from SIUC (then S.I. Normal College) with a concentration in English and music. She enjoyed teaching English and reading at Malan Junior High in the late 60’s/early ‘70’s.

 

Florence was preceded in death by her parents; husband; son John Paul; two brothers, Jim and Charles O’Neal; and son-in-law, Fred Whitlatch. She is survived by her brother Rayburn; her children, Mary Ann (Rich) Morris; Jim (Mesha) Slightom; and Debby Whitlatch, eight grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and a special friend, Fred Harvey (Marion).

She wanted her body to be donated to science and then cremated, with the ashes to be joined with her husband’s in the future. A small memorial service with just immediate family is planned for the future. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Hospice of Southern Illinois or the charity of the donor’s choice.

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