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Elizabeth
"Bessie" Mae Slansky, 100, of Meridian,
died Sunday, Jan. 5, 1992, at a
Nampa
care center. Vigil
Services will be celebrated at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, at
Persons-Flahiff Funeral Chapel, Nampa.
Mass of Christian
Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8, at
St. Paul's Catholic Church,
Nampa.
The Rev. Father Francis Springer, S.M., will be the
celebrant. Burial will
follow at Mount
Calvary
Cemetery, Nampa.
Mrs. Slanslcy was born May 14, 1891, at
Plainville, Kansas, a daughter of James and Josephine
Kaba. She married
Joseph Slansky, a tailor, Jan. 16, 1912, at
Plainville.
After living in
Albuquerque,
New Mexico, until 1915, and then in Hutchinson, Kansas, until
1927, the family moved to a farm in the Lone Star community
near Nampa.
Her husband Joseph,
died May 5, 1966. Due
to health reasons, she moved to the home of her son, Joseph,
in Meridian,
in Oct. 1982, where she resided until her death.
Mrs. Slansky was a
devout Catholic and a member of the
St. Paul's parish since 1927.
Survivors include
two sons and a daughter-in-law, Cyril and Elvera S!ansky of
Idaho Falls, and Joseph Slansky of Meridian; two daughters and
sons-in-law, Vera and Walter Guinn of Nampa, and Marcie and
John Trent of Anchorage, Alaska; ten grandchildren; eighteen
great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
She was also
preceded in death by two grandchildren; one son-in-law, Roger
Waldron; one daughter-in-law, Lela Slansky; four brothers; and
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