Mary Sue Sluss Masters, beloved wife, mother and grandmother, died Monday, October 16, 2006, at Memorial Hermann hospital in The Woodlands, Texas, from complications arising from breast cancer.
There will be cremation. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 21, 2006, at Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church in The Woodlands. A graveside service with burial of cremated remains is planned for 2 p.m. Saturday, October 28, 2006, at Anderson Memorial Gardens in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Sue was born February 20, 1942, in Sevierville, Tennessee, to Charles Hall and Cora Gregory Sluss. She attended the University of Tennessee, where she met and married John Roger Masters on October 26, 1962. She graduated UT in 1966 with a bachelor's degree in education and in 1992 earned a master's degree in education as a reading specialist from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. She taught for many years, including in Lenoir City, Tennessee; at Pinkston High School in Dallas, Texas; and at Aldine Senior High School and Shotwell Middle School in Houston.
Sue was involved with the League of Women Voters and the Grogan's Mill Village Association in The Woodlands, and was active with the Democratic Party of Texas, including past service as an election judge and a precinct chairwoman in Montgomery County, and as a delegate to the state convention. She was an active member and trustee at Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church in The Woodlands, where she had served on the church's building committee. She was an avid reader and enjoyed painting and travel. She held a special place in her heart for cats and her grandchildren.
Survivors include her husband, John, of The Woodlands, Texas; son Stephen of Charlotte, North Carolina; son and daughter-in-law Paul and Pam Masters of Austin, Texas; her mother, Cora Sluss of Oliver Springs, Tennessee; three brothers and a sister-in-law, John Sluss of Decatur, Georgia, David Sluss of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Danny and Donna Sluss of Knoxville, Tennessee; two grandchildren, Truman and Tucker Masters of Austin, Texas; and many aunts, uncles and cousins. She was preceded in death by her father, Charles H. Sluss, in 1995.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to a medical charity of your choice. | 
