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Published by Legacy Remembers on Apr. 13, 2010.

CARTHAGE - Graveside services for Arthur Guy Sloma, 88, of Carthage, will be held in the Deadwood Cemetery, Deadwood, Texas, 10 a.m., today, April 13, 2010, with son, David Sloma officiating. Arrangements are by Hawthorn Funeral Home. Mr. Sloma passed away April 11, 2010, in Tyler, Texas.

A.G. Sloma was born September 16, 1921, in West Columbia, Texas, to Arthur Bryan and Valda Mae Pogue Sloma. He married Helen May Hammerand on December 23, 1945, at First Baptist Church of West Columbia. A.G. served his country in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II where he was a Master Sergeant in the Air Transport Command, stationed at Love Field in Dallas, Texas, where he met Helen.

He graduated from West Columbia High School and attended Texas Lutheran College in Seguin, Texas, before enlisting in the Army Air Corps. He served in Asia, Africa and South America before being honorably discharged in December 1945. A.G. worked in Quality Control for Joy Manufacturing Company before retirement and moved to a farm in Gary, Texas, where he and Helen lived for 28 years before moving into Carthage in 2008. He enjoyed bowling, golf and being outdoors. He loved to tinker with anything mechanical and was very inventive with useful gadgets on the farm. He was a long-time member of First Baptist Church, Gary.

A.G. is survived by his wife of 64 years, Helen Hammerand Sloma of Carthage; two daughters, Jayne Faye Browning and husband James of Fair Play Community, and Sue Ann Allen of Whitehouse, Texas; twin sons, Steven Arthur Sloma of Durham, North Carolina, and David Martin Sloma and wife Judy of Minnesota; nine grandchildren, Connie Dorsett and husband James, Rob Browning and wife Laura, Stephanie Sloma, Bryan Sloma and wife Kristie, Russell Sloma, Andrew Sloma and wife Cari, Matthew Sloma, Jonathan Sloma and wife Rachel, and Katie Allen. He is also survived by four great-grandchildren, Colton and Callie Dorsett, Ben Sloma and Lizzie Sloma; and one brother, Calvin Lou Sloma and wife Nita of Hot Springs Village, Arkansas.

Preceding him in death were his parents and granddaughter, Sarah Allen. Special thanks to Bethany Home Health Care for their wonderful care and The Hospice of East Texas. Memorial donations can be made to The Hospice of East Texas, 4111 University Blvd., Tyler, Texas 75701.