SLOAN, Margaret (Megredy) - b. September 3, 1929 - d. January 24, 2014

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Margaret (Megredy) Sloan died from pulmonary disease on January 24, 2014 at the age of 84.  She was born south of Longton, Kansas to Floyd Thomas and Hazel Millard Megredy on September 3, 1929, the third of five children.

Margaret graduated from Longton High School in 1947.  She attended Independence Kansas Jr. College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Redlands in California.  She later received a Masters degree from Boston University.  Margaret taught elementary education and then became an editor of textbooks at Addison Wesley Publishers.  In 1970, she moved to Palo Alto, California due to a job transfer, and while living there, she met and married her husband, Philip Sloan in 1975.

Surviving is a sister, Trudy Webster of Twin Falls, Idaho; a brother, Robert Megredy of Los Angeles, California; 2 stepsons, Robert and Phyllis Sloan and their four sons of Sunnyvale, California and Chris and Andrea Sloan and their two children of Beaverton, Oregon; and 38 nieces and nephews.  Her husband, Philip, preceded her in death in 1992.  She was also preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Virginia Kingsbury, and a brother, Richard Megredy.

The family will miss Margaret's wit and intelligence, great smile, and sense of humor.

(published in the Wichita Eagle 01/27/2014)