Matthews / Conner / Covey / Salts [Solt] Family History - Person Sheet
Matthews / Conner / Covey / Salts [Solt] Family History - Person Sheet
NameMinnie Louise SALTS461, F
Birth Date19 Oct 1911461
Birth PlaceMemphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
Death Date21 May 1992461 Age: 80
Death PlaceMemphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
Burial PlaceMemorial Park Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee461
FatherThomas Heskell SALTZ , M (1882-1945)
MotherNelly Bly "Nell" LACY , F (1889-1961)
Spouses
Birth Date5 Jul 1910461
Birth PlaceArizona
Death Date3 Jun 1998461 Age: 87
Death PlaceMemphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
Marr Date1929461
Birth Date7 Jun 1908461
Birth PlaceMyrtle, Mississippi
Death Date21 Jan 1982461 Age: 73
Death PlaceMemphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
Burial PlaceMemorial Park Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee461
Marr Date17 Feb 1946461
Marr PlaceHernando, Mississippi
Notes for Minnie Louise SALTS
Notes for MINNIE LOUISE SALTS from Connie Gray:
She was called Louise. A older gentleman, who came to her funeral, said she was known as the prettiest girl in North Memphis. She was named after her father's sister Minnie.

1930 Census, Naval Reservation, Escambia, Florida
William Earl Evans 19, Mildred L. 18, Betty L. 6 months
(Louise hated the name Minnie and always told people her first name was Mildred. Louise's five younger brothers would call her Minnie Mouse.)

During WWII Louise Ivy worked for the defense depot building airplanes. After the war, she worked for many years at the Hotel Peabody in Memphis, TN. She first worked in the coffee shop and later was the bartender in the Creel Room. She retired in her early 60's and was independent and active until her sudden death in 1992 at the age of 80.

The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN Friday, May 22, 1992
Louise Saltz Ivy, of Memphis, retired employee of The Peabody, died Thursady at Methodist Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Park Funeral Home with burial in Memorial park. She was a member of Lewis Senior Center. Mrs. Ivy, the widow of M.C. Ivy, leaves three daughters, betty Bargiacchi Summers of Memphis, Patti Ivy Baggett of Bartlet, and Connie Ivy Gray of Columbia, S.C.; three sisters, Mary Nell Jensen, Blanche Saliba and Dorothy Raburn, all of Memphis; four brothers, Gene Salts of Booneville, Miss., and William B. Saltz, C.A. Saltz and Joe Saltz, all of Memphis, nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Arlington Development Center.461
Notes for William Earl (Spouse 1)
Notes for WILLIAM EARL EVANS:
Social Security Death Index: William Evans, birth July 5, 1910, death June 3, 1998, Issued TN,
412-03-6983, ZIP 38111, Memphis, Shelby, TN461
Notes for Marion Charles (Spouse 2)
Notes for MARION CHARLES IVY:
He was called M.C.
M.C. served in WWII. He was in the 512th Military Police (Field Army) Battalion. The unit saw action on Omaha Beach on D-Day in June 1944, The unit saw further action in Normandy, Northern France and the dash through Central Europe into the Rhineland. The Unit was deactivated in October, 1945. (taken from story in the Memphis Press-Scimitar ~ 1973 about their 28th annual reunion)

M.C. was a special deputy in Memphis, Shelby County, TN and worked in the business license unit until his retirement.461
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