Extracted from The Lake Charles American Press (Lake Charles, LA)
Friday, April 8, 1960

R. D. Slocum Of St. Landry Dies at Lecompte

ST. LANDRY (Spl.) -- Robert D. Slocum, 83, of St. Landry died at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in a LeCompte clinic following a lengthy illness. He was a retired logging contractor.

Funeral services were to be held at 3 p.m. today at the Lone Pine Baptist church. Burial was to be in the Griffin cemetery under direction of Ardoin funeral home of Oakdale.

Survivors are three sons, Roy and Reginald Slocum, both of Lone Pine and Morris Slocum of Orange, Tex.; two daughters, Mrs. Edith Dossman of St. Landry, Mrs. A. J. Creel of Oakdale; 23 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.