John Lee Sloan Jr.

A memorial service honoring the life of John Lee Sloan, Jr. will be held at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 4, 2024, at Osborn Funeral Home, 3631 Southern Avenue, Shreveport, Louisiana. Officiating the service will be Dr. Scott Teutsch of Trinity Heights Baptist Church. A visitation will be held prior to the service beginning at 4:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
John Lee Sloan, Jr. of Dixie, La passed away on Tuesday, August 27, 2024.
John was born on April 3, 1967, to Pam and Jimmy Lee Sloan. John, from a young age, began his lifetime of devotion to continuing his family legacy of farming at Cairo Plantation in Dixie.
John was a true southern Renaissance man with many interests and connections. Throughout his life, he cherished the many relationships he built with everyone he met. He never met a stranger and he would immediately form meaningful connections. He was an avid "archaeologist", spending countless hours searching for relics along the Red River and surrounding areas. John loved everything life had to offer. He cherished an outdoors lifestyle and lived everyday exploring what the world had to offer.
Countless friends will miss John's infectious smile, enthusiasm for life, and friendship. Through many trials and tribulations, John never missed an opportunity to help a friend or just enjoy a laugh.
John is survived by his loving wife, Tanya Howard Sloan; his son, Sawyer Littlejohn Sloan; his mother, Pamela Sloan Street and husband, Bob Allen; stepchildren, Brittnee Paige Thompson, Caleb Wade Wiley, Brayton Kyle Howard, and Erika Grace Blankenship; and step-grandchildren, Aiden Wade Wiley, Nora Olivia Nelson, and Everette Ray Thompson.
John is preceded in death by his father, Jimmy Lee Sloan; his brother, Martin Harlan Sloan; and his sister, Pammi Sloan Muscarello.