In Memory

Glenn Owen Sallack*

Glenn Owen Sallack, 84 of 204 West Virginia St. Beckley, died Sunday, June 16, 1985, at 2 p.m. in a Buchannon hospital. Born Feb 21, 1901, in Bradford, PA, he was the son of the late Augustus and Ethel Thompson Sallack. Mr. Sallack was a member of the First Baptist Church in Beckley and was one of the three original Golden Eagles. He was band director working for the Raleigh County Board of Education and wrote the fight song for the Woodrow Wilson Flying Eagles. He was a graduate of Syracuse University with a degree in Electrical engineering. Mr. Sallack helped organize the first All-State High School Orchestra in 1929 and served as the orchestra’s director. He is a former president of the State High School Bandmaster’s organization. He did graduate work at New York University, Ithaca Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. Survivors include his wife, Wanda Lowe Sallack; two daughters, Mrs. George R. (Betty) Wilson of Beckley and Mrs. Darnell (Barbara) Southern of Scott Depot; a brother Alden Sallack of Olive Branch, Miss; a sister, Lucille Almendinger of Buffalo, NY.; and two-grandchildren. Services will be Wednesday at 11 am in the Melton Mortuary chapel in Beckley with the Revs. Earl Whitener Jr. and James McCune officiating. Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens in Prosperity. Friends may call today from 6 pm to 9 pm. Pallbearers will be Tom Burgess, Ben Cook, Bob Daniels, Charles Earehart, Harry Luntz, Charles McGraw, Phillip Payne and Robert F. Wilson Jr.