Erma T. Slough Brown

Mrs. Erma T. Slough Brown, 92, died Sunday, April 28, 2002, at the home of a daughter, Dawn Blackerby, 3600 Still Oaks Court NW, Concord, with whom she made her home. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Landis Baptist Church. Interment will follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Concord. The Revs. Billy Honeycutt, James Pauley and Jack Watts will officiate. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. At other times they will be at the home of a daughter, Wanda Morgan, 1120 China Grove Road, China Grove. Born October 28, 1909, in Yadkin County, NC, she was a daughter of the late Clarence Hampton Taylor and the late Ada Mae Haga Taylor. Mrs. Brown retired several years ago from the Sewing Room of Cannon Mills, Plant One in Kannapolis. She was a member of Landis Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two husbands, Homer Alexander Slough, who died in 1967, and William Bruce Brown, Sr., who died in 1989; and a brother, Jesse Taylor. Survivors include two daughters, Dawn Blackerby and her husband, Harold, of Concord, and Wanda Morgan and her husband, Jack of China Grove; four sisters, Lois Brooks and Inez Harrington, both of Kannapolis, Geneva Luther of China Grove, and Virginia Allred of Siler City; two brothers, Oren Taylor and John Taylor, both of Kannapolis; five grandchildren, Todd Murphy of Lexington, Benjie Bayne and Kelly Broadway, both of Kannapolis, Jackie Smith and Joshua Blackerby, both of Concord; and nine great-grandchildren. Memorials may be sent to Landis Baptist Church, PO Box 8, Landis, NC 28088.