Loyd Louis Sloan, 81, of Sweet Home, died Aug. 28, 2008 at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital.
He was born Sept. 10, 1926 in Spring Valley, Ark. to James Louis and Virginia (Vanderpool) Sloan.
He grew up on a farm in Wesley, Ark., one of nine boys and two sisters.
He served in the Army during World War II, from January 1945 to September 1946 in the Asiatic Pacific.
In October 1946 he married Dorene Burdick…