Edward F. Salutz

SALUTZ, BACH, MCNAMARA, PURCELL

Posted By: Ruth Maring (email)
Date: 11/16/2006 at 20:08:56

The Clinton Herald
Monday, October 10, 1994

Edward F. Salutz

Edward F. Salutz, 93, of 849 13th Ave., died Saturday at the Alverno Health Care Facility, where he had lived since 1992.

A Memorial Mass will be offered at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Prince of Peace Parish, Sacred Heart Church with the Rev. Ronald Young officiating. Mr. Salutz's body has been donated to medical science. Burial of the cremains will be held at a later date at St. Mary's Cemetery in Clinton.

Mr. Salutz was born Oct. 12, 1900, in Clinton, to Florian and Elizabeth Bach Salutz. He married Marion "Betty" McNamara in July of 1946, in Clinton. She died in 1965.

He attended parochial schools through the eighth grade and was a 1918 graduate of Clinton High School. He worked as a carpenter in the Clinton area in the 1920's. He served in the Naval Construction Battalion which was a division of the U.S. Seabees, for three years and served in the Pacific during World War II, on the Hawaiian Islands of Midway, Saipan and Tinian. He was discharged in August of 1945. He was later employed as a woodworker at the Curtis Company Inc., retiring in 1965.

He played baseball in the Clinton area and played for two years with the old Industrial Twilight League on the American Legion team. He was a lifelong follower of Notre Dame football and Chicago Cubs baseball. He was a member of Prince of Peace Parish, Carpenters Local No. 772, the Amercan Legion, June Van Meter Post and the D.A.V.

Survivors in nieces and nephews, including Kathryn E. Purcell of Clinton, with whome he lived his later years; and two siters-in-law, Marcella McNamara and Margaret McNamara.

He was preceded in death by four brother and five sisters.

Death date: Oct 8, 1994