SALTS, Robert Forrest 1907-1979

SALTS, HOLMES, ROBINSON, WALKER, HARMEIER

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 9/19/2010 at 14:01:04

"The Fairfield Ledger", Saturday, May 12, 1979

SALTS rites

Services for Robert Forrest SALTS, 71, will be Monday at 10 a.m. at the Weston Behner Funeral Home with the Rev. Wayne Bartruff officiating. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery.

Visitation will be at the funeral home from 7-8 p.m. Sunday.

SALTS died at 8:46 a.m. Friday at the Jefferson County Hospital following a lengthy illness. His home is on Route 4.

Robert Forrest SALTS was born July 6, 1907, in Jefferson County. The was the son of James and Ella HOLMES SALTS.

His marriage to Hazel ROBINSON took place July 4, 1927, at Mount Pleasant.

SALTS worked as a molder at the Dexter Company for over 20 years and spent most of his life in Jefferson County. He is the last of a family of 11 children.

In addition to his widow he is survived by two daughters, Evelyn WALKER, Pomona, Calif., and Dorothy HARMEIER, Westminster, Calif.; one son, James SALTS, Fairfield; 11 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by one daughter and a son.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.

Note: Robert is in 2nd.176 at Evergreen Cemetery. The death date for him has been found different in two sources. The May 12, 1979, date noted in an obituary scrapbook at the Fairfield Library was the publication date of the Saturday edition of the Fairfield Ledger; an Evergreen cemetery listing compilation inadvertently used that publication date as the death date.

However, Robert died the day before, on a Friday, May 11, 1979.

The September 8, 1983, Fairfield Ledger obituary for Hazel A. SALTS inadvertently published within her obituary that Robert died on "March 11, 1979." Whether or not that date was supplied incorrectly to the Ledger, or simply a publication typo, isn't known.