Sloan, William Franklin

Picher Oklahoma, Nov 6 funeral arrangements for William Franklin Sloan, 59 years old, of Welch Oklahoma, a shoveler at the Boska Mine, who was killed yesterday when caught beneath a falling slab, have not been completed. The body is at the parlors of the Todd undertaking company. Sloan is survived by his widow, Mrs. Julia Sloan; four daughters, Mrs. Goldie Edwards of Adair Oklahoma, and Ada Sloan, Florence Sloan and Vera Sloan, at home; two sons, Glen Sloan and Tilden Sloan, also at home; a step-daughter, Mrs. Rosie Heniger of Decatur Arkansas, and two step-sons, William Charles Keith, both of Kansas Oklahoma. It is believed Sloan was killed in an attempt to reach the shaft after having heard the mass of rock cracking in the roof. His body was found some distance from where he was working. Had Sloan remained at the point in the drift where he was working, he would have escaped, fellow workers said.

Picher Oklahoma, Nov 7 funeral services for William Franklin Sloan, 59 years old, of Welch Oklahoma, who was killed Tuesday at the Boska Mine when struck by a falling slab, were conducted at the Assembly of God church in Welch at 2 this afternoon. The Rev. Curran of Miami officiated. Burial was in the Welch cemetery under direction of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon in Welch Oklahoma for William F. Sloan, a resident of Sunflower district, five miles northeast of Welch, on the former E. E. Shere farm. Mr. Sloan had been working in the Boska Mine north of Picher Oklahoma as a shoveler for some time. He was killed Tuesday when a slab from the mine roof fell on him. The Rev. T. J. Curran of the Pentecostal church at Miami officiated. Burial was in Welch cemetery.