Jean McIntosh Obituary

McINTOSH, Jean Entered into eternal rest on April 10, 2007, Jean Marie Slough McIntosh, widow of Norman Benjamin. Residence, Charleston, SC. Relatives and friends are invited to attend her Memorial Service, Saturday, April 14, 2007 at three o'clock in Martin Luther Evangelical Lutheran Church, James Island. Interment services will be conducted later in Parks Cemetery, Bourbon, Indiana. Mrs. McIntosh's 81 years were filled with a zest for life as a psychiatric nurse, an elected city judge and mother of four children. Born on December 20, 1925 in Bourbon, Indiana to Lawrence and Lillian Slough, Mrs. McIntosh graduated valedictorian of the Class of '43 from Bourbon High School. She then headed to Chicago where she studied nursing at Methodist Hospital School of Nursing and enlisted to join the Army Nurses Corp upon graduation, but was not called up after World War II ended. Instead she moved to San Francisco, California, where Mrs. McIntosh met her husband, Norman, and started her family of four children. After her husband's death in 1964, Mrs. McIntosh moved to Kendallville, Indiana where she raised her family and was remarried to Nelson Harrod. She worked as a nurse for her two brothers, Dr. Richard Slough and Dr. Thomas Slough and later as a psychiatric nurse at McCray Memorial Hospital. She was elected Kendallville City Judge in 1971 and served two terms. An avid bridge player, Mrs. McIntosh was active in Tri-Kappa and worshiped at Trinity Methodist Church. Mrs. McIntosh moved to Charleston, South Carolina in 1981 and finished her career at the Psychiatric Institute of University Medical Hospital. She attended Martin Luther Church where she served on the Counsel and was very active in the Women of Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (WELCA). She taught English as a Second Language courses at Our Lady of Mercy Church. She is survived by two daughters: Beth Vanderbeck and her husband Howard of Charleston, SC and Liliane Heller and her husband Stephen of Great Barrington, MA; two sons: David McIntosh and his wife Ruthie of Arlington, VA and Malcolm McIntosh and his wife Elizabeth of Rochester, MN; two brothers: Robert Slough of Philadelphia, PA and James Slough of Bourbon, IN; one sister-in-law: Peg Scott and niece Gretchen Slough of Kendallville, IN; eight grandchildren: Alexandra Heller, Nicholas Heller, George Vanderbeck, Victoria Vanderbeck, Monica Vanderbeck, Ellie McIntosh, Madilyn Heller, and David McIntosh, Jr. In lieu of flowers the family request that contributions be made for community services to WELCA c/o Martin Luther Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1605 Harbor View Road, James Island, SC 29412 Arrangements by J. HENRY STUHR, INC., DOWNTOWN CHAPEL. Visit our guestbook at www.charleston.net/deaths.