* Dolores (Rain) Slook; Teacher

Dolores (Rain) Slook, who taught in San Fernando Valley elementary schools for about 20 years, has died at her Sun Valley home. She was 62.

Ms. Slook died Tuesday of cancer, said longtime friend Betty Beavers of Sun Valley.

Born in Philadelphia, Ms. Slook served for four years in the U.S. Navy’s Military Air Transport Service. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Cal State Northridge in the early 1960s and soon afterward began her teaching career at Morningside Elementary School in San Fernando. She later transferred to Osceola Street School in Sylmar, where she taught sixth grade until the early 1980s. Ms. Slook worked as a substitute elementary school teacher until last year. In 1983, she and Beavers started an in-home pet care business called Animal Buddies.

Ms. Slook is survived by her brother, Jack Slook of Clementon, N.J.; and sisters Gail Stewart of Palmdale and Edele Pepe of Gordon Heights, Del.

At her request, no funeral services are planned.

A bench was placed at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge in her memory. Pierce Brothers Valhalla Mortuary in North Hollywood is handling the donations.

Donations can be made in Miss Slook’s name to the American Cancer Society or Descanso Gardens.