LOUIS SALVADOR
Louis A. Salvador, a resident of Pittsburgh, PA, and formerly of Morgantown, WV, and of Greensburg, Pleasant Hills, and Rockwood, PA, passed from this life at the age of 90. Mr. Salvador was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, to the late Louis and Mary Salvador of Lansing and St. Clairsville, Ohio. His father was a business owner, County Commissioner, and bank director; his mother was a homemaker and participated in the family businesses.
Louis attended Lansing Grade School and Linsly Military Institute of Wheeling, WV, where he graduated with honors in 1953. He graduated magna cum laude from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1958 with B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering. At Carnegie Tech, he was features editor of the Carnegie Technical, an ROTC battalion commander, and Commander of the Scabbard and Blade ROTC honorary. Lou married his high school sweetheart Agnes Zannis of Yorkville in 1957; they spent 60 years together before her death in 2011. They had two wonderful sons, David and Stephan, their pride and joy. He and his wife were total and equal participants in their lives together and loved each other dearly. They were proud of their Italian, Serbo-Croatian, and Greek ancestries. He loved his family and his career, and enjoyed his hobbies of photography, horsemanship, woodworking, classical music, writing, and his farm. He believed strongly in being authentic and true to oneself and to God.
He served as an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and enjoyed a long and prosperous career as an engineer and executive in the aerospace and energy fields with Atlantic Research, Westinghouse Electric, M.W. Kellogg, and the U.S. Department of Energy. At Westinghouse he was responsible for the development and commercialization of the KRW coal gasification process, attaining the position of Vice President of KRW Energy Systems in Madison, PA. His retirement in 1996 came after serving for nine years as a Senior Executive with the Department of Energy’s Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC) where he was responsible for planning and executing the METC portfolio of outside contract research and was a leader in the nation’s Clean Coal Technology Program.
Mr. Salvador is survived by his two sons David (Tina Russo) of Tampa and Stephan (Jan MacGregor) of Thornburg; by his grandchildren, Christina and Nicholas of Greensburg; and by numerous cousins, nieces, and nephews living in the Tri-State area and beyond. He was also survived by his close companion Carol Dussair of Appleton, Wisconsin. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife Agnes, by his father and mother, by his brother Lt. Col. Ron Salvador (Georgianna) of Belmont, OH, by his father-in-law and mother-in-law Sam and Antoinette Zannis of Yorkville, OH, by sisters-in-law Sylvia (James Arslain) of Wheeling and Evangeline (Norman Popkie) of Yorkville.
The family invites friends and relatives to the Wilson Funeral Home, 920 National Rd., Bridgeport, OH where visitation will be held from 2 to 6 P.M. on Sunday, January 25. Funeral services will be held on Sunday, beginning at 5 P.M. at the Wilson Funeral Home. Private interment will be held at the convenience of the family at the Holly Memorial Gardens in Pleasant Grove, Ohio.
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