Mary Elizabeth (Green) Slater, 93, of Cedar Rapids, and formerly of East Moline, Illinois, died Saturday, November 27, 2010, at Northbrook Manor Care Center, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Services: 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, December 1, 2010, at Murdoch Funeral Home & Cremation Center, Marion, Iowa. The family will greet friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Private burial: Greenview Memorial Gardens, E. Moline, Illinois.
Survivors include 2 brothers-in-law, Jack E. Mills of Hiawatha, Iowa and Thomas F. Kelly of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and many nieces and nephews living throughout the United States.
She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; and siblings, Catherine Green, Berniece Kelly, Helen Mills, and Harold Green.
Mary was born May 28, 1917, the daughter of LeRoy and Maude (Kelly) Green, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She married Lyle P. Slater in 1947 in Cedar Rapids. He died in 1968.
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