OBITUARY:
Lettice "Letty" Lee von Selzam Saville, 66, of Beaufort died Sunday, July 9, 2000, in Memorial Medical Center, Savannah.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight in Copeland Funeral Home, Beaufort. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in St. Helena's Episcopal Church. Burial will be private.
Mrs. Saville was born Feb. 28, 1934, in Calcutta, India, a daughter of Edward von Selzam, a German Diplomat, and Anita Henry von Selzam. When war broke out with the United States she and her brother were sent to Switzerland under the care of her nanny Ida "Schatzi" Fritz, a Swiss national. At wars' end, the family moved from Germany to New York and then to Wisconsin. She graduated high school and college from Holton Arms School, Washington, D.C.
She was an art teacher in Maine and editor of the Wive's Newsletter while in Kansas. She was a civil staff advisor to the base commander in California.
She moved to Beaufort in 1978 upon her husband's retirement from the U.S. Air Force. She was active in the Beaufort Tennis Association and the Dataw Island Club. She was a long-time member of Beaufort Art Association. She attended St. Helena's Episcopal Church.
Surviving are her husband, Edward A. Saville of Beaufort; two sons, Michael J.P. Saville of St. Louis, MO., and David Scott Saville of Pensacola, Fla.; a daughter, Katherine Lee Saville of Columbia, Ohio; a brother Rudiger von Selzam of Mukwanago, Wisc.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
The family suggests that those who wish may make memorials to St. Helena's Episcopal Church, P.O. Box 1043, Beaufort, S.C. 29901.
SOURCE: "The Beaufort Gazette", Beaufort, South Carolina, Wednesday, 12 July 2000, p. 2A, c. 2.
OBITUARY:
Lettice "Letty" Lee von Selzam Saville, 66, of Beaufort died Sunday, July 9, 2000, in Memorial Medical Center, Savannah.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight in Copeland Funeral Home, Beaufort. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in St. Helena's Episcopal Church. Burial will be private.
Mrs. Saville was born Feb. 28, 1934, in Calcutta, India, a daughter of Edward von Selzam, a German Diplomat, and Anita Henry von Selzam. When war broke out with the United States she and her brother were sent to Switzerland under the care of her nanny Ida "Schatzi" Fritz, a Swiss national. At wars' end, the family moved from Germany to New York and then to Wisconsin. She graduated high school and college from Holton Arms School, Washington, D.C.
She was an art teacher in Maine and editor of the Wive's Newsletter while in Kansas. She was a civil staff advisor to the base commander in California.
She moved to Beaufort in 1978 upon her husband's retirement from the U.S. Air Force. She was active in the Beaufort Tennis Association and the Dataw Island Club. She was a long-time member of Beaufort Art Association. She attended St. Helena's Episcopal Church.
Surviving are her husband, Edward A. Saville of Beaufort; two sons, Michael J.P. Saville of St. Louis, MO., and David Scott Saville of Pensacola, Fla.; a daughter, Katherine Lee Saville of Columbia, Ohio; a brother Rudiger von Selzam of Mukwanago, Wisc.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
The family suggests that those who wish may make memorials to St. Helena's Episcopal Church, P.O. Box 1043, Beaufort, S.C. 29901.
SOURCE: "The Beaufort Gazette", Beaufort, South Carolina, Wednesday, 12 July 2000, p. 2A, c. 2.
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