Daisy Lorene Slaton Obituary

Daisy Lorene Slaton, age 94 of Gorman, passed away, Saturday, February 20, 2016 at the Hendrick Hospice Care in Abilene.

Services will be 2:00 P.M. Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at the Higginbotham Funeral Home Chapel with Clyde Stillwell officiating.  Burial will be in Oaklawn Cemetery in Gorman. 

Daisy was born November 17, 1921 in Comanche County, Texas to Homer Wood and Iva Lorena (Hampton) Wood.  She graduated from Cisco High School as Salutatorian in 1938. 

She was an honor graduate from John Tarleton in Stephenville in 1940.  Daisy worked for several years for Shell Peanut Company.  She later worked for Southwestern Peanut Growers

Association until her retirement.

She received the John Campanius Holm award in1988 for reporting the weather to the National Weather Service. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

She is survived by three daughters, Sunny E. Black and husband, Charles of Abilene, Bennie Gail Rahe of Auburn, Alabama and Sarah McCauley of Gorman; nine grandchildren

and five great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, three husbands, James Rawson, Benny Peveto and Bill Slaton and two sisters, Mary Bushing and Velsie Rawson.