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Paul graduated from Piedmont High School and played bass drum in the Piedmont Band. He was a graduate of Jacksonville University. Paul was also a graduate of Officer's Candidate School and served in the National Guard for 30 years, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. He was a member of the Spring Garden Volunteer Fire Department, on the Board of Directors for DHR in Cherokee County, and a graduate of the Alabama Fire College, as well as a notary public. He was an active member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Savage-Stewart Camp No. 522. Also, while living in Gadsden, he was a Mason in the Cedar Bend Masonic Lodge, coached the B/C team of Southside "Silver Hawks," and was a member of the Shriner's Club of Gadsden, as well as a member of the Zamora Temple Shrine of Birmingham. He was an avid photographer and owned Savage Photo and Studio Labs of Cherokee County before retiring and assuming the Post Master position of the Spring Garden Post Office, which had been run by his family for the past 99½ years.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Paul H. Jr. and Grace Wilson Savage; and brother, Eddie.
He is survived by his wife, Melvia Ann Luhrs Savage; son, Jeffrey Scott (Sarah Walker) Savage; daughters, Kimberly Casey (Jay) Hyde, Angel Marie (Gilbert) Fournelle, and Ashlie Rebecca (Mark) Stone; and eight grandchildren, Jacob, Samuel and Anna Grace Savage, Sarah Beth and Jessica Hyde, and AnnMarie, Cheyenne and Haley Stone.
The family requests memorials be made to the Spring Garden Relief and Disaster Fund, P.O. Box 3, Spring Garden, AL 36275.
Funeral services will be held Friday, Aug. 24, at 11 a.m. from Dansby Heritage Chapel in Piedmont with the Rev. Neale Lanigan and the Rev. Morris Minton officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Gap Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 this evening at Dansby Heritage Chapel.
Dansby Heritage Chapel is honored to serve the Savage Family.
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for Paul Savage
Wanda McCurdy
August 28, 2012
RIP our dear friend. We will miss you so much. Our prayers are with Melvia and family. We love you! Pat, Wanda and Todd
Frankie Barnard Johnston
August 25, 2012
Melva and family, so sorry for your loss. Paul was an asset to Piedmont High the years we went to school together, Class of '65. My prayers are with you.
August 23, 2012
Our thoughts and prayers are with all the Savage Family.
Billy and Creagh Richardson
Shad Smith
August 23, 2012
Our prayers are with your family during this time. Paul was a very special man. He made a difference in many lives. He will be greatly missed.
m Cole
August 23, 2012
So sorry for your loss, Paul photographed my daugthers senior pictures and was such a nice man.
Troy Beecham
August 23, 2012
To the Savage family
I am very sorry for your loss. I graduated from High School with Paul
and thought alot of him.
Troy
Becky Rhodes
August 23, 2012
The Heavens are truly rejoicing! I pray that God will wrap his loving arms around your family today and give you peace like only He can provide.
Robin Prestridge
August 23, 2012
Kim and family,
Sorry for the loss of your father. Please know you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.
Kristi Wilkinson
August 23, 2012
Paul was a wonderful man and one of the best photographers that I have ever seen. The portraits that he made of the boys still hang in our living room and I think of him often. He was so good to me when I taught at Spring Garden, even coming back to the school to help me change a tire when he discovered that it was flat while at the school one day. He would give the students a tour of the post office each year and was very patient in answering the hundreds of questions that they would ask. He will be missed. My prayers are with the family.
Kristi Wilkinson
patricia clark
August 23, 2012
You are going to be missed very much but you are in GOD hands now
Ron & Teresa Greer
August 23, 2012
Celebrating a life well lived. We will cherish the memories forever.
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