ELIZABETH SLAUSON

SLAUSON, ELIZABETH M. Elizabeth M. Slauson, age 89, of Bethany, formerly of Hamden, passed away on August 23, 2014. Born in Hartford, CT on February 24, 1925, she was a daughter of the late James Burleigh Morton & Helen Chatfield Morton. Elizabeth was the widow of Harvey Benson Slauson, Jr; mother of Suzanne Carpenter & her husband Frank of Virginia Beach, Harvey Slauson, III and Robert Slausen & his wife Ona-May, all of Bethany; grandmother of Adam & Drew Carpenter, Robert Slauson, Jr., Cassandra & Odessa Slauson, and sister of the late Louise Bangs, Stella Bisaccia & George A. Morton. Elizabeth was a former saleswoman for Caldor’s Department Store in Hamden. She was a member & past president of the Hamden Women’s Club and a former member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her funeral service will be held Thursday, August 28th at 10:30 AM in BEECHER & BENNETT FUNERAL HOME, 2300 Whitney Ave, Hamden. Friends may also visit with her family at the funeral home on Thursday from 9:30 to 10:30 prior to her service. Interment will follow in Centerville Cemetery, Hamden. Contributions in her memory may be made to the Bethany Volunteer Ambulance Corps, 765 Amity Rd, Bethany, CT 06524. For more information or to send a condolence, please see www.beecherandbennett.com.