The family of Christopher Austen Slay, 23, will receive family and friends for visitation Friday, July 5, 2019 from 10am until the 11am funeral service at Chancellor Funeral Home in Byram. Interment will follow at Magnolia Cemetery in Baton Rouge, LA at 4pm. Austen, a native of Baton Rouge, was raised in Byram, attending Byram and Terry High Schools. He was an Inspector in the Insurance Industry. He is preceded in death by his grandmother, Vivian Bowen. Survivors include his mother, Tabitha Bowen of Canton, father and step-mother, Allen (Gia) Slay of Baton Rouge, LA; maternal grandfather, Don Bowen of Canton and paternal grandmother, Dinky Durrett of Baton Rouge, LA; step-sister Morgan Wade of Baton Rouge, LA; first cousin, Taylor Slay and a host of friends.