SACRAMENTO, August 17.—Funeral services are being arranged here today for Thomas D. M. Slaven, pioneer California editor and educator, who died at a local hospital here yesterday following an acute heart attack. He was 66 years old.
Slaven, former educator and editor of Holllster and Orovllle, resided In California since 1879 and came to Sacramento in 1910 in an editorial capacity for a local newspaper.
He is survived by his widow, two children, Thomas Slaven, San Francisco attorney, Kathleen Slaven, local teacher; a brother E. J. Slaven, Mare Island, and three other brothers and a sister.
Oakland (California) Tribune, August 17, 1926.