Malcolm E. “Gene” Slagle

Mal­colm E. “Gene” Sla­gle, 86, passed away on Mon­day (Nov. 28, 2011) at the Kobacker House.

He was born in Colum­bus on May 29, 1925, to the late Myral and Dorothy Sla­gle, and was a grad­u­ate of Cen­tral High School. Gene proudly served our coun­try in the U.S. Army dur­ing World War II, earn­ing sev­eral medals includ­ing the Bronze Star and Pur­ple Heart. He was a good and decent man, inde­pen­dent and strong, faith­ful and gen­er­ous. He was a mem­ber of Sun­bury United Methodist Church, as well as Amer­i­can Legion Post 0430, VFW, AMVETS and DAV.

Gene is sur­vived by for­mer wife, Betty Sla­gle; son, Richard (Nancy) Sla­gle; daugh­ters, Susan Cochran and June (Bart) Fen­ton; grand­chil­dren, Sta­cie New­man, Jonathan Todd, Amie Hafner, Eli (Megan) Cochran, Jen­nifer (Bob) Keat­ing, Bill (Heather) Fen­ton, Jason (Kerry) Fen­ton, Richel (Chris) Maier and Bud (Michelle) Spires; and sev­eral great-grandchildren.

The fam­ily will receive friends from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. on Thurs­day (Dec. 1, 2011) at the Schoedinger North Chapel, 5554 Karl Road. A funeral ser­vice will be held at 11 a.m. on Fri­day at the funeral home with the Rev. Brian Smith offi­ci­at­ing. Inter­ment will fol­low at Red Bank Ceme­tery. In lieu of flow­ers, con­tri­bu­tions can be made to the Home­Reach Hos­pice Kobacker House. Spe­cial thanks to Dr. Patel, vis­it­ing nurse Marty, and the entire staff at Kobacker House.

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