1913
Louise
2010
Louise Slawecki
April 2, 1913 — November 11, 2010
CANFIELD - Memorial services will be held Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010, at Park Vista Retirement Community?s Chapel, 1216 Fifth Ave., for Louise E. Slawecki, 97, who died Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, at Park Vista.
Louise was born April 2, 1913, in Sheffield, Pa., the daughter of George Alfred and Harriet Jane White Elder.
Louise was a graduate of Mansfield State University in Pennsylvania, where she earned her bachelors degree in Music, specializing in piano. Louise was very accomplished in a number of different areas. During the depression, she along with one assistant, was put in charge of establishing the Pittsburgh social security office. She later worked as the secretary to the chairman of the chemistry department of Smith, Kleine and French in Philadelphia, where she was instrumental in the development of a shorthand system for organic chemistry.
She moved to this area in 1971. She was a member of the First Unitarian Universalist Church, the Questors Club, and was a volunteer for Laubach Literacy International. She was also a member of the Youngstown Area Federation of Woman?s Clubs, where she was a past president and a member of its past officer?s club.
Her husband, Tadeusz K. Slawecki, whom she married March 18, 1945, died June 1, 2001.
She is survived by a brother, Rex A. Elder of Greenbrae, Calif.; four nephews, Rodman E. Harris and Christopher P. Harris, John A. Elder and William P. Elder; and two nieces, Carol S. Weatherspoon and Susan A. Mathis.
Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a sister, Lois Elder Harris.
Professional arrangements are by the Higgins-Reardon Funeral Home, Boardman-Canfield Chapel.
Louise was born April 2, 1913, in Sheffield, Pa., the daughter of George Alfred and Harriet Jane White Elder.
Louise was a graduate of Mansfield State University in Pennsylvania, where she earned her bachelors degree in Music, specializing in piano. Louise was very accomplished in a number of different areas. During the depression, she along with one assistant, was put in charge of establishing the Pittsburgh social security office. She later worked as the secretary to the chairman of the chemistry department of Smith, Kleine and French in Philadelphia, where she was instrumental in the development of a shorthand system for organic chemistry.
She moved to this area in 1971. She was a member of the First Unitarian Universalist Church, the Questors Club, and was a volunteer for Laubach Literacy International. She was also a member of the Youngstown Area Federation of Woman?s Clubs, where she was a past president and a member of its past officer?s club.
Her husband, Tadeusz K. Slawecki, whom she married March 18, 1945, died June 1, 2001.
She is survived by a brother, Rex A. Elder of Greenbrae, Calif.; four nephews, Rodman E. Harris and Christopher P. Harris, John A. Elder and William P. Elder; and two nieces, Carol S. Weatherspoon and Susan A. Mathis.
Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a sister, Lois Elder Harris.
Professional arrangements are by the Higgins-Reardon Funeral Home, Boardman-Canfield Chapel.
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