Service for Douglas Charles Sly, 94, will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Ball and Dodd Funeral Home-South. Burial will be at Greenwood Memorial Terrace.
Mr. Sly, who died Wednesday, was born in Spokane and moved to New York with his family in 1910.
He joined the Army when he was 21 and was stationed in Hawaii.
In 1927 he married Gladys Chesham, and they settled in New York. They moved to Spokane in 1935.
Mr. Sly was a member of the construction crew that built Coulee Dam and during World War II he worked as a millwright at Kaiser Aluminum in Trentwood. After the war, he owned a construction company.
In 1958 he became a member of the carpenters/millwrights union and was an instructor of millwright skills at the community college level. He retired when he was 75.
Mr. Sly was a member of First Presbyterian Church.
His wife died in 1988.
He is survived by a son, Ernest Sly of Spokane; two daughters, Audrey Sly Hedman of Cathlamet, Wash., and Carol Sly Southard of Liberty Lake; four sisters, Fanny Kyle of Eclectic, Ala., Pearl Daily and Mary Arnold, both of Yorkshire, N.Y. and Dorothy Stangl of Delevan, N.Y.; and a brother, George Sly of Eclectic.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Senior High Youth Activities at First Presbyterian Church.
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1930 Census - Occupation: Carpenter, Industry: Highway Construction (Aurora, Erie Co., New York)
1940 Census - Occupation: Carpenter Contractor, Industry: Contracts (Spokane, Spokane Co., Washington)
Service for Douglas Charles Sly, 94, will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Ball and Dodd Funeral Home-South. Burial will be at Greenwood Memorial Terrace.
Mr. Sly, who died Wednesday, was born in Spokane and moved to New York with his family in 1910.
He joined the Army when he was 21 and was stationed in Hawaii.
In 1927 he married Gladys Chesham, and they settled in New York. They moved to Spokane in 1935.
Mr. Sly was a member of the construction crew that built Coulee Dam and during World War II he worked as a millwright at Kaiser Aluminum in Trentwood. After the war, he owned a construction company.
In 1958 he became a member of the carpenters/millwrights union and was an instructor of millwright skills at the community college level. He retired when he was 75.
Mr. Sly was a member of First Presbyterian Church.
His wife died in 1988.
He is survived by a son, Ernest Sly of Spokane; two daughters, Audrey Sly Hedman of Cathlamet, Wash., and Carol Sly Southard of Liberty Lake; four sisters, Fanny Kyle of Eclectic, Ala., Pearl Daily and Mary Arnold, both of Yorkshire, N.Y. and Dorothy Stangl of Delevan, N.Y.; and a brother, George Sly of Eclectic.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Senior High Youth Activities at First Presbyterian Church.
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1930 Census - Occupation: Carpenter, Industry: Highway Construction (Aurora, Erie Co., New York)
1940 Census - Occupation: Carpenter Contractor, Industry: Contracts (Spokane, Spokane Co., Washington)
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Infant Boy Sly
1898–1899
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Grace E Sly
1900–1957
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Ernest Zebulon Sly
1903–1994
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Fanny Elizabeth Sly Kyle
1905–2001
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Eloise R Sly Rupert
1906–1962
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John James Sly
1909–1991
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Ralph Potter Sly
1911–1965
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Dorothy A. Sly Stangl
1913–2003
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Pearl Evangaline Sly Dailey
1914–2003
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George Washington Sly
1917–1999
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Mary Ellen Sly Arnold
1920–2003
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