TED SAVAGE
ADA-Services for Ted Ronald Savage, 92, Ada, are 1 p.m. Tuesday at First United Methodist Church. Rev. David Daniel will officiate, assisted by Rev. Bob Langston. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mr. Savage died Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014, at an Ada care center. He was born July 26, 1922 in Hammon, Oklahoma to Eugene Bernard and Mary Virginia Mabry Savage. He attended school at Hammon and graduated from Hammon High School. He graduated from Oklahoma A & M (now Oklahoma State University).
He married Mildred Lou Byrd on November 27, 1943. She preceded him in death on April 21, 2002. He later married Jackie Morehead in January 3, 2003 in Ada. Mr. Savage assumed the position of the Manager of the Ada Chamber of Commerce and the Executive Director of the Ada Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) in the Spring of 1956 serving until his retirement 1984. After his retirement, he was a member of the first Pontotoc County Vo-Tech Board and participated in selecting and acquiring its present location. Mr. Savage was one of the original founders and longtime board member of the Science and Natural Resources Foundation. He was the original founder of the Pontotoc County Adult Day Care Center. Mr. Savage was a longtime member of the First United Methodist Church in Ada.
Mr Savage served in the U. S. Army from October 28, 1944, until being honorably discharged May 19, 1946, as a First Lieutenant. He received the Bronze Star Medal, the European African Middle Eastern Service Medal, the American Theater Service Medal and the World War II Victory Medal. He also received a second Bronze Medal in 2008 for his service in World War II.
Survivors include his wife, Jackie Savage, of the home; three daughters, Stephanie Savage Jacobson and her husband Frank of Scottsdale, AZ, Dr, Kathy Savage and her husband Dr. Robert Suddith of Wilmington, NC, and Jamie Savage Leach and her husband Clyde of Ada; his step-daughters, Kristi Meyers and husband Steve of Ada and Courtney Morehead of Ada; his grandchildren, Aaron Jacobson, Adam Jacobson, Aviva Shira Funke, Andrew Suddith, Mabry Ballard, Alex Leach, Andrew Leach, Jason Leach, Erin Shaw, Greenlee Myers and Savannah Myers; and his great-grandchildren, Noah Cyrus Jacobson, Jonah Samson Jacobson, Alma Byrd Jacobson, Kelvin Andrew Suddith, Olivia Blake and Channing Sloane Ballard, Samuel Shaw and E. B. Funke.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, Mildred Lou Savage; two brothers, Eugene Savage and Lew Savage; and three sisters, Iris Wilson, Glena Belle Crane, and Lorena Males.
Bearers will be his grandsons.
The family says those who wish may make memorials to the First United Methodist Church, P. O. Box 566, Ada, OK 74821/ or the Adult Day Care Center of Pontotoc County, 301 E. Kings Road, Ada, OK 74820.
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Criswell Funeral Home, Ada