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Elkhart Truth March 19, 1998 Former Elkhart County Prosecutor C. Whitney Slabaugh, 84, of 1702 Victoria Drive, Elkhart, Ind., died at 9:30 p.m., Tuesday (March 17, 1998) in Valley View Health Care Center, where he had been a patient since 1994. Born on May 19, 1913, on Garfield Avenue in Elkhart, Mr. Slabaugh graduated from Elkhart High School, where he was captain of the football team, and attended the University of Mississippi and the University of Wisconsin. He graduated from the Indiana Law School in Indianapolis. He opened a law office in Elkhart in 1938. Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1940, he was a veteran of the Invasion of Pearl Harbor and served with the Counter Intelligence Corps in the Hawaiian Islands until 1943. He was later commissioned and served in Europe until 1945, retiring as a first lieutenant in the Military Police Corps. Mr. Slabaugh returned to Elkhart and practiced law as a partner with Slabaugh & Cosentino until his retirement in 1991. He served four terms as Elkhart County Prosecutor from 1958 to 1974. He and his wife. Mary E. (Borneman) Slabaugh, were married on April 9, 1944, in Elkhart. She survives with two sons, C. Whitney Jr. of Owatonna, Minn., and Carl L. of Elkhart; and a sister Imogene Streeton of Elkhart. A brother Howard and one sister, Virginia Larson, are deceased. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Billings Funeral Home. The service will be 1 p.m. Saturday at St. John's Episcopal Church with the Rev. Richard A. Kallenberg officiating. Burial will be in Rice Cemetery. Mr. Slabaugh was a member of the American Bar Association, Indiana Bar Association, Elkhart County Bar Association and St. John's Episcopal Church., where he had served as a junior and senior warden and was a former member of the vestry. He was a member of the Republican Party and Elkhart Fraternal Order of Police, a 32nd degree Mason, past president of the City Club and past secretary with the Elkhart-Canadian Hunt Club. In 1994, he was honored as a 50-year member of the Elkhart Bar Association with the Liberty Bell Award., and was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court in the 1980s. Memorials may be given to the church. Charles Whitney Slabaugh Sr. BIRTH 19 May 1913 Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, USA DEATH 17 Mar 1998 (aged 84) Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, USA BURIAL Rice Cemetery Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, USA MEMORIAL ID 131949657
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