Slabaugh, Lotus Mast (1901-1948)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1948 Jun 3 p. 1

Birth date: 1901

text of obituary:

Indiana Physician Dead at 46

Nappanee, Indiana, May 28, 1948. — This northern Indiana community feels deeply the loss through death at the untimely age of 46 of Lotus M. Slabaugh, M. D. Dr. Slabaugh, who had performed a wide and valuable service not only to people representing many branches of the Mennonite church in this area but also to the community as such, serving as Nappanee public health officer, passed away on Friday morning, May 21, as the result of a heart attack. He had suffered with heart trouble for some time and had given up some of his work, but had not been considered in a serious condition.

Surviving are his wife; three young sons — Eugene, Bernell, and Bryce; and his parents Dr. Jancy S. and Delilah Mast Slabaugh. Dr. Slabaugh had been associated with his father in the practice of medicine in Nappanee for the last twenty years.

Dr. Slabaugh was a member of the First Mennonite church of Nappanee where he made a significant contribution through the application of his hobby — photography — by taking movies periodically of the educational program of the church as well as of special events. At the last annual meeting of the congregation he had showed these pictures.

Dr. Slabaugh took his college degree at Earlham College in 1924, his first two years of college having been taken at Goshen College. He was a graduate of the Hahnemann Medical School, Philadelphia, in 1928. He was a member of the Elkhart County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association.

Funeral services were held at the First Mennonite church with Rev. Jacob Enz, pastor of the church, officiating.

The Mennonite obituary: 1948 Jun 8 p. 16