Born August 10, 1941 in Kermit, West Virginia. The son of the late William Herbert Sluder Sr. and Maude Mae Preece Sluder.

He was married to Jane Ann Hamara on August 14, 1965 in West Orange, New Jersey. They spent more than forty-seven happy years together.

He is survived by his wife Jane, his two children, Luann K. Wonders of Arlington, Virginia, a son William H. Sluder III of Crofton, Maryland and two sisters Mary Louise Mart of Hiawatha, Iowa and Artlene Boyter of Belpre, Ohio, grandchildren Melissa G. Sluder and William H. Sluder IV of Gambrills, MD and Lucy Ann Wonders of Arlington, VA.

He was preceded in death by his parents, William H. Sluder and Maude M. Sluder and siblings Lloyd Ray Sluder and Helen Lambert.

Mr. Sluder lived with his wife and children for more than forty years in St. Mary's County where he spent most of his career as a middle school principal at Margaret Brent Middle School, Spring Ridge Middle School and Leonardtown Middle School. He retired in 1996 and began working for Emory Riddle Aeronautical University at Patuxent River Naval Air Station for two years, substituted occasionally in the public school system, delivered Meals on Wheels and served as a bailiff in the St. Mary's Circuit Court System.

Family will receive friends for Bill's Life Celebration on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM., with a funeral service with an Elk's Memorial Service at 2 PM with Reverend Sheldon Reese at Hollywood United Methodist Church, 24422 Mervell Dean Road, Hollywood, MD 20636. Interment will follow in the Evergreen Memorial Gardens, Great Mills, MD.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The Hospice House, c/o Hospice of St. Mary's, P.O. Box 625, Leonardtown, MD 20650.

Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown, MD.