Haidee LeRuth Glaze Slaton, 91, died Thursday, March 26, 2015, at her residence at Morningside Assisted Living in Decatur. A memorial service and celebration of her life will be held at First United Methodist Church in Moulton at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 4. The family will receive visitors in the church fellowship hall from 12:30 to 2 p.m.
She was born April 13, 1923, in Athens to Luther Dillard Glaze and Haidee Tutwiler Glaze. She graduated from Athens High School, class of 1941, and received a B.S. degree from the University of Alabama in 1945.
In June, 1945, she married Arthur Fleming Slaton Jr., who had just returned from military service in the South Pacific. During their first year of marriage, she taught at Athens High School and he worked as a Linotype operator at the Limestone Democrat in Athens.
In January, 1946, the couple purchased The Moulton Advertiser and moved to Moulton, where they worked together for many years. She managed the office and wrote the social news while raising three sons and a daughter.
The couple retired in the mid-1970s and enjoyed an active travel schedule for several years, visiting Europe and Australia in addition to many locations across the United States. They were married for 37 years prior to his death in 1982. The Moulton Advertiser remained in the Slaton family for 61 years until it was sold to the parent company of The Decatur Daily in 2007.
Mrs. Slaton also managed her family’s farm interests in Limestone County for most of her adult life. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Moulton.
She is survived by three sons, Arthur Fleming Slaton III and his wife, Jane, of Irving, TX; Luther Glaze Slaton and his wife, Kathy, of Moulton; Rabun Lee Slaton of Austin, TX; and a daughter, Katherine Slaton Wallmeyer and husband, August of Richmond, VA; 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
The family appreciates the loving and attentive care Mrs. Slaton received from the staff at Morningside as well as from the staff at Hospice of the Valley.
In lieu of flowers, the family recommends memorials to either Hospice of the Valley or First United Methodist Church of Moulton.
