Billie Glynn McAdams Sloan went home to be with her Savior on Friday, July 19, 2024, just five days short of her 100th birthday. Mrs. Sloan was born to Berniece B. and Joseph Bailey McAdams Sr. on July 24, 1924, in Gordonville, Cooke County, Texas. She attended Plainview public schools and graduated from Plainview High School in 1941. The following fall semester, she began college at Wayland Baptist College, where she graduated two years later. She then enrolled in and graduated from Baylor University. She was subsequently awarded her master's degree from Columbia University, New York, New York.

Billie Glynn began her teaching career in Abernathy, Texas, but stayed only one year before returning home to teach in the junior high school in Plainview. She finished her teaching career at Wayland Baptist University. She often said that she loved teaching at Wayland so much that she would have paid the University for the privilege.

Billie Glynn married John J. "J" Sloan on August 14, 1959, only the second couple  to wed in the new chapel at the First Baptist Church, Plainview. J and G's family expanded in 1962, with the birth of their daughter, Lisa Kay, and again in 1964 with the birth of their son, John Glynn. J., G., and Lisa moved to Lubbock in 1963, and G. stayed home to raise her, and later, John. She was active in her children's school lives, was assistant leader for Lisa's Blue Bird group, and led  the G.A. group at Second Baptist Church. She also taught Sunday school classes for forty years, culminating in decades as one of the teachers in Adult II class. Billie Glynn loved playing bridge, and until her stroke at age 97, played cards every week with various groups, including ladies from her Sunday school class, which was her favorite. She was also a 70-year-old member of Delta Kappa Gamma.

G. was preceded in death by her husband, John J. Sloan, and son, John Glynn. She was also preceded in death by her parents, Berniece and J.B. McAdams, Sr., and her siblings, J.B. McAdams, Jr., Dolores Barrier, Beth Brown, and Walter Samuel McAdams, Sr. She is survived by her daughter, Lisa Arp, and beloved granddaughter, Sloan Katherine Arp. Also surviving G., are her sister, Carolyn Bratcher, brother-in-law, Wendell L. Brown, Sr., and sister-in-law, Sharon McAdams. Thirteen nieces and nephews additionally survive her.

Services will be held Friday, August 9, 2024, at the Second Baptist Church, 6109 Chicago Ave., Lubbock, Texas, with a visitation at 9:00am followed by a Funeral service at 11:00am, with the Rev. Charles Foster Johnson officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Memorial Park, 100 S. Joliet, Plainview, Texas. Visitation will be held at 9:00am, Funeral arrangements are under the care of Lemons Funeral Home in Plainview.

Honorary Pallbearers are her nephews, J.B. McAdams, III, Michael Brown, Robert L. Bratcher, Jr., Walter Samuel McAdams, Jr., and Christopher McAdams.