Lena Sluder

LENA KATHRYHN SCOTT SLUDER Only two days shy of celebrating the 94th anniversary of her birth on the High Plains of West Texas, Lena Kathryn Scott Sluder joined her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, entering into eternal rest, from her beloved West Texas home of Lubbock, on April 11th, 2014. Born Lena Kathryn Scott in Floydada, Texas on April 13, 1920, to Mother, Mable Christine [Newell] Scott and Father, Shelley Dillard Scott, Lena graduated Floydada High School and attended Draughan’s Business College. Her life-long love was her Husband, Cecil Weldon Sluder. Wounded in battle in the Pacific theater during WWII, Cecil returned to Lubbock where Lena married him just days before Christmas in 1944. They made their home in Lubbock for the next 51 years until Cecil’s death in 1995. Lena and Cecil lived a full and fabulous life, enjoying one another’s constant company and mutual interests such as ballroom dancing (for which they won many awards, over the years) and their never-ending appreciation for music, the arts and one another. Lena and Cecil were West Texas visionaries in their belief that the High Plains was a world-class grape producing region. Taking as their inspiration the fine German wines which they admired, enjoyed and collected, they established one of the first grape vineyards in West Texas, nurturing and maturing their vines into some of the finest grape-producers in the region. Their grapes were included in many of the early award-winning wines produced on the High Plains. Lena’s only brother, Earl Dillard Scott, had also preceded her in death. Yet Lena continued to live her life to the fullest. She was an accomplished seamstress and enjoyed creating works of art from leaded glass, many of which adorned her Lubbock home. She was a lifetime member of Beta Sigma Phi sorority and active in her church and community. She was a good neighbor and reliable friend to many, whose names and her appreciation for them, are known to those who read this notice. Lena’s surviving family includes her nephew, W. D. Scott and his wife, Mary, of San Antonio and her niece, Virginia Scott Myers, and husband Patrick, of Jacksboro, Texas, as well as many great and great-great nieces and nephews in whose hearts and minds her memory will live on. Graveside service at 10:00 AM, Monday, April 14, 2014, Resthaven Cemetary, Lubbock. Final arrangement by Sanders Funeral Home, Lubbock.

Lena Sluder

April 13, 1920 - April 11, 2014