- Date Of Birth: December 5, 1942
- Date Of Death: August 10, 2016
- State: Massachusetts
Last week a gentle soul departed this world for the next at the tender age of 73 years. Born with the gift of gab, our dearly departed was an avid story teller turning the smallest of happenings into front page news. This final story is her story, the story of her life (abbreviated, of course, due to cost and column constraints). Cecelia Reeves Slater was born on December 5, 1942, eldest child of Jim and Marion Reeves and beloved big sister of Elizabeth, Margaret and Peter. A New Yorker born and bred, Cecelia grew up in Manhattan until such time that fate saw it fit to draw her to Boston for a chance meeting with the notable Bostonian, Jerard E. Slater (he caught the garter and she the bouquet at a mutual friend’s wedding). She soon thereafter married Jerry and immediately set to work on her greatest project, her family. She had two sons, James and Peter (sensibly resisting Jerry’s desire to name them Socrates and Plato), and complemented the picture with a dog with a curly tail, Spunky.
