Mary "Irene" Sloan, 76, of Nampa and
formerly of the Roswell-Adrian area, died Wednesday, December
18, 1996, at a Nampa care center. Funeral services will be
held at 2 p.m. Monday, December 23, 1996, at Dakan Funeral
Chapel in Caldwell. Rev. Allen Nelson of the Deer Flat Fee
Methodist Church, Caldwell, will officiate. Private interment
will be at Roswell Cemetery, Roswell - Idaho.
Irene was born July 16, 1920, in West Plains, Missouri, to Jim
and Nora Day Sparks. She married Leo Delbert Sloan
February 27, 1942, and they resided in the Parma, Notus and
Adrian areas where Delbert farmed and Irene was a homemaker
and also worked as a cook in the Parma and Adrian Schools.
Irene loved her family and friends and enjoyed cooking for
them. She also enjoyed sewing and Bible study in her
spare time. rene will always be
remembered by her family and friends for her strength of
character and her warm and caring nature.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband,
Delbert; a son, Robert and her brothers, Carol, Norman and
Herbert Sparks. Irene is survived by
her sons and their families, Ron and Linda Sloan of Caldwell,
Jerry and Candy Sloan of Kuna and Dennis Sloan of Boise; a
daughter and her family, Debra and Clayton Etcheson of Tucson,
Arizona; a daughter-in-law, Becky Sloan of Parma; a brother
and his family, Ray and Audry Sparks of Caldwell; a sister and
her family, Hazel and Harold Kuhlman of Payette; ten
grandchildren and 1 great-grandson.
Friends may call at Dakan Funeral Chapel in Caldwell from noon
to 6 p.m. Sunday. |