Obituaries
WINIFRED SLOUGHTER, 92: Former Ridgefielder, RHS '33
Apr 28, 2008

Winifred “Wini” Sloughter of New Bremen, Ohio, a 1933 graduate of Ridgefield High School, died Friday, April 25, at the Saint Marys Living Center, Saint Marys, Ohio. She was 92 years old.

Wini Sloughter

Mrs. Sloughter had formerly lived in Sarasota, Fla., South Pasadena, Fla, and Ridgefield. She married John Gordon Coffin in 1939; he died in 1975. She later married Gordon Sloughter, who died in 1987.

She was born July 24, 1915, in New York City, daughter of Claude and Jane “Jennie” Lawrence Seale.

She was a 1933 graduate of Ridgefield High School and a 1937 graduate of the Connecticut College for Women. She was a retired executive secretary for the Electro Mechanical Research Company and Schlumberger Corporation in Ridgefield and Sarasota, Fla.

Mrs. Sloughter was a member of Pilgrim United Church of Christ in St. Petersburg, Fla. She was a big fan of the Tampa Bay Rays and golfer Tiger Woods; she loved playing bridge, her family reports. She was awarded an “Everyday Hero Award” from Channel 9 News in the Tampa Bay area for her work making hand-knitted comfort blankets for animals. Although she was nearly blind, she spent countless hours knitting the blankets to assist animals receiving care from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

She is survived by her two children: Gordon Coffin and his wife, Jean, of New Bremen; Elaine Coffin and husband Mario Vecchi of South Pasadena; a step-daughter, Kathia Miller and her husband, Alan, of Naples, Fla.; five grandchildren: Kim Johnson of Palm City, Fla; John   Coffin of Franklin, Ohio; Heather Beaubien of Avondale Estates, Ga.; Daniel Moll of Port Richey, Fla.; Wendy  Cummings of Flourtown, Pa.; 11 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Helen Nash and her husband, John, of Sarasota, Fla.

A sister, Jean Downes, died before her.

Private family memorial services will be held and interment will follow at Palms Memorial Park in Sarasota.

Memorial donations may be made to the Otterbein Saint Marys Retirement Community Benevolence Fund; the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or to a hospice of the donor’s choice. Donations may be sent to Vornholt-Miller Funeral Home, P.O. Box 181, New Knoxville, Ohio, 45871.

Condolences may be conveyed to the family via millerfuneralhomes.net.

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