Lucille Wallace

Slater

Lucille Wallace Slater passed away September 14th, 2022 at Goldcrest Nursing Home in the Bronx, New York. She was 95.

Graveside services will be held 10:00 A.M. Thursday, September 22, 2022 at Sweetwater Ce metery with Rev. Larry Holder officiating. Interment will follow under the direction of McCoy Funeral Home.

A native of Haskell, Texas, she is the daughter of Albert and Florence Wallace. When Mrs. Slater was seven years old her mother died suddenly and the family of four boys and two girls had to be split up. She was ad opted by Reverend Louis Smallwood and his wife Zoe Smallwood, of Hamlin Texas. She graduated from Hamlin High School as Valedictorian. Following graduation she assisted in the war effort, serving as a Flight recorder at the United States Army Air Force B ase in Pyote, Texas. After the war, she continued her education at McMurray College in Abilene, Texas, graduating with a BA in English. While at McMurry she met her beloved husband, Cecil Shirley Slater.

Her husband's career as a land man in the oil and gas business took them all around the Southwest before settling in Oklahoma City. Following the birth of their two sons, Timothy and Westley, Mrs. Slater was a homemaker, Den mother, a devout member of the Village United Methodist Church and she owned her own business for several years. She and Cecil eventually followed their son Tim and daughter-in-law Deborah to upstate New York, where she was a gentle and loving presence in the lives of her grandchildren Ben and Erin.

She was predeceased in death by h er husband Cecil and son Timothy.

She is survived by her son Westley and his wife Melanie, daughter-in-law Deborah and husband Alan, grandchildren Benjamin and Erin and three great grandchildren, Olive, Timmy and Rebecca.