Leah Salt

LEAH SALT Funeral services for lifelong Towaoc resident Leah Salt will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday, June 14 at the Towaoc Recreation Center. Interment will follow at Towaoc Cemetery. Visitation has been scheduled for Wednesday evening from 5 to 7 p.m. at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Leah was born October 20, 1917 to Joe Salt and Adelaide Burr. She passed away on Sunday, June 10, 2012 at her residence at the age of 94. As a young woman, Leah cared for the Byron and Mary Brown family as a nanny at the Fox Farm located on the east side of Summit Lake. She took great pride in the love and service she provided them. She enjoyed sewing, beadwork, quilting, reading and cooking. Leah loved time spent with her grandchildren. She was a wonderful grandmother. Surviving Leah are her daughter, Carol House (Jackie) of Towaoc; her grandchildren, Sonya Lefthand (Hank), Marcianne Wing (Eddie), Chad Hamlin (Etta), Charlotte Hamlin, Roger Wing, Sandy House, Ellen Gurule (Paul), and Greg Mills; 20 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grandchildren; her niece, Georgianne King of Towaoc; and her nephew, George Mills (Karen) of Towaoc. Leah was preceded in death by her parents; by her children, Ramona Wing and Gerald Wing; by one brother and two sisters.