On May 15, 1918, a baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. W.O. Formby at Afton, Texas. Her name was Mildred Virginia.
"I lived at Afton until 1924, then moving to Silverton with my family in Briscoe County. There I finished grade school, which was grade seven. Then in 1932, we moved to Spur, Texas and I graduated in 1936. It was more or less during the depression years, so we had to make our own fun, such as borrowing people's watermelons. In fact, that is where I met my husband, the late Fay Slough. We were married in 1937 and had two wonderful sons. Paul Alvin, now living in Post, Texas and Dewey Jay, living in Amarillo. I have 3 wonderful grandchildren; P.J., Paul's son and Shane and Jennifer, Dewey's son and daughter. They were all born after my husband, Fay, was killed in a house explosion. I was in California visiting and helping take care of a sick brother. Fay Slough got one of the first basketball sweaters that was issued in Dickens school and our son Paul got one of the last that was issued. Now, what time I'm not working, I'm on the road visiting my children and grandchildren."
----Mildred SloughSource: Dickens County History...its Land and People 1986 by Dickens Historical Commission
Green Lafayette (Fay) SLOUGH was born on 24 Aug 1910 in Dickens, Texas. He died on 17 Jul 1979 in Dickens, Dickens County Texas. He was buried in Dickens Cemetery.
He was married to Mildred Virginia FORMBY on 15 Mar 1938 in Clovis, New Mexico. Mildred Virginia FORMBY was born on 15 May 1918 in Afton, Dickens County, Texas. She died on 30 Jul 1997 in Lubbock, Texas. She was buried on 1 Aug 1997 in Dickens Cemetery. Green Lafayette (Fay) SLOUGH and Mildred Virginia FORMBY had the following children:
Services for Mildred Virginia Slough, 79, of Dickens were held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, August 1, 1997 at the Dickens Baptist Church. Rev. Robert Fields, Amarillo and Rev. Darrell Blevins, of Plainview officiated. Burial was in the Dickens Cemetery under the direction of Campbell Funeral Home of Spur.
Mrs. Slough died Wednesday, July 30, 1997, at St. Mary Hospital in Lubbock.
Mrs. Slough was born May 15, 1918, in Afton. She married Fay Slough on March 15, 1938, in Clovis, N.M. He preceded her in death on July 17, 1979. Mrs. Slough was a homemaker and a clerk in the Dickens County Tax Office for several years. She was a member of the board of directors of the North Dickens County Senior Citizens. She was a Baptist.
Survivors include two sons, Paul of Dickens and Dewey of Amarillo; two sisters, Nell Baxter of Lake El Sinore, Calif., and Sue Formby of Spur; and three grandchildren.
©The Texas Spur, Thursday, August 7, 1997
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