by Archana Subramaniam by CNB
Roanoke Times Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: FRIDAY, March 5, 1993 TAG: 9303050303 SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO SOURCE: DATELINE: BEDFORD LENGTH: Short
OBIT SLAUGHTER, ELBERT GOODWIN
SLAUGHTER, Elbert Goodwin, 75, of Route 7, Mountain View Drive, Bedford, passed away quietly on Thursday, March 4, 1993 in a Lynchburg hospital. He was born in Roanoke on May 18, 1917, a son of the late Ralph Elbert Slaughter and Gladys Goodwin Slaughter. He was a 1939 graduate of the College of William and Mary, a member of the Alumni Association, had served with U.S. Army Intelligence during World War II and was retired from the Army Reserve with the rank of colonel. A longtime resident of Norfolk, he was the first Eagle Scout in Norfolk and later served as a scout master. He was a deacon of Talbot Park Baptist Church, past president of the Norfolk Chapter of the Charter Life Underwriters Association and was a retired charter life underwriter with United Services Life Insurance Company. In 1978 he retired to Bedford where he was a former deacon and treasurer (1983-93) of Bedford Baptist Church, a member of Bedford Country Club and a charter member of the board of directors and treasurer of the Avenel Foundation. He is survived by his wife of 49 years, June Mackey Slaughter; two sons, Barry Goodwin Slaughter of Norfolk and Robert Mackey Slaughter of Bedford; a daughter, Sterling Slaughter Lohman and granddaughter, Acacia French Lohman of Bedford. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 6, 1993 at Bedford Baptist Church with Dr. Ron R. Blankenship officiating. Burial will follow in Oakwood Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Avenel Foundation, P.O. Box 686, Bedford, Va. 24523. The family will receive friends from 3 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Carder-Tharp Funeral Home, Bedford.