Extracted from The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Friday, September 13, 1946

MRS. PEARL M. SLOCUM

OAKDALE, La., Sept. 13. -- (Special) -- Funeral services for Mrs. Pearl M. Slocum, 35 years old, of St. Landry, who died in Bunkie at 2 a.m. Thursday, were held at the Lone Pine Baptist church Friday, with the Rev. Archie Smith, officiating. Interment was in the Griffin cemetery.

Surviving her are her husband Roy Slocum of St. Landry; four daughters, Betty Faye Slocum, Patrina Ann Slocum, Margaret Helen Slocum, and Linda Kaye Slocum, all of St. Landry; her mother, Mrs. Clara Voisle of Simmesport; two brothers, Karl Rabalais and Fulton Rabalais, a sister, Mrs. Henry Lemoine, all of Hamburg, La.