A Memorial Service will be held at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church on 911 S. Davis Dr. Arlington, TX 76013 on Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 10 a.m. The family will receive friends during a visitation on Friday, October 18, 2019 from 5 -7 p.m. at Moore Funeral Home on North Davis Drive.
Sam was born on January 8, 1934 in St. Jo, Texas. He graduated from Bowie High School in 1952 and attended Draughon’s Business College in Wichita Falls. He then volunteered and joined the Navy rather than be drafted in the Army. Sam spent four years in the Navy with most of his time being in San Diego and San Francisco. He was aboard the aircraft carrier USS Badoing Straight for the H bomb tests in the South Pacific in 1956. While in the Navy, Sam met and married his wife, Joan Marie Hart, while they served together in the communications headquarters on Treasure Island. Sam was discharged in early 1957 after helping put the ship in moth balls at Bremerton, WA. He then worked for Ken Davis Industries in Wichita Fallas, TX from 1957 to 1962. He transferred to Arlington in 1960 and went into the insurance business in 1962 and retired June 1, 2009. Sam’s hobbies included playing golf and duplicate bridge.
Survivors are daughters, Ramona Long and Rhonda Rose of Arlington, TX, and Jeannie Hughes of Winchester, KY; grandchildren, Melissa Rose, Morgan Kenyon, and Stefan Kenyon of Arlington, TX; Christa Smith and Corban Kenyon of Murphy, TX; great-grandchildren, Zeke and Noelle Smith and Titus and Shiloh Kenyon; and sister, Tomalta Gross of Fredericksburg, TX.
Sam was preceded in death by his parents, Ola Belle and Merwin O. “Slim” Long, Sr. of Bowie, TX; his wife, Joan Marie Long, who passed away in June 1997 after forty-three years of marriage; his daughter, Rebecca Long of San Francisco, CA; his sister, Judy Heggen of Lynnwood, WA; and his brother, John Long of Bowie, TX.
