World War I Veteran
First wife was Lenora Sherman - three children: Barbara Jean Savage Harris, Ocean Virgina (nicknamed Pat) Savage Brock, and Esther Lee Savage Stallings (my mother); he and Lenora divorced when Mama was nine years old. A set of twins, a boy (Roy - deceased) and a girl (Joy), was born later, to whom he gave his name though he was not the biological father. His second wife was Lou Ella Franklin Cole - no children.
Cause of death: sudden heart attack at age fifty-five while mowing his yard.
Grandson Richard Savage
World War I Veteran
First wife was Lenora Sherman - three children: Barbara Jean Savage Harris, Ocean Virgina (nicknamed Pat) Savage Brock, and Esther Lee Savage Stallings (my mother); he and Lenora divorced when Mama was nine years old. A set of twins, a boy (Roy - deceased) and a girl (Joy), was born later, to whom he gave his name though he was not the biological father. His second wife was Lou Ella Franklin Cole - no children.
Cause of death: sudden heart attack at age fifty-five while mowing his yard.
Grandson Richard Savage
Inscription
ROBERT ROY SAVAGE
BORN: OCTOBER 10, 1895
DIED: JULY 11, 1951
ASLEEP IN JESUS