A Mass of Christian Burial is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on July 20, 2017 at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church. Internment will immediately follow at Arlington Memorial Park with military honors. Monsignor Hugh M. Marren is the celebrant.
Born in Savannah, Ga. on January 29, 1924, Ed Saunders was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 47 years Margaret (Peggy) Callaghan Saunders of Pittsfield, Mass, and his parents Isabelle Cooper Saunders and John Joseph Saunders of Savannah. Oldest of four brothers, he was predeceased by his brothers Jack and Richard Saunders, both of Savannah, and his brother Robert Saunders of Memphis, Tenn.
Ed Saunders attended Benedictine Military School in Savannah, graduating second in his class. He entered the U.S. Army as a lieutenant, serving in the Pacific theater as a member of the Japan occupation force. He was honorably discharged in 1945, having risen to the rank of captain.
Graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1948, he majored in industrial engineering. He became a sales engineer for the General Electric Company, working in the Pittsfield, Mass., Philadelphia, New York, New Orleans, and Atlanta offices. During his long tenure in Atlanta, he was GE’s representative to the Georgia Power Co., later the Southern Company.
Ed Saunders started his working life as a newspaper boy for the Savannah Morning News. He began his college education through the work-study (co-op) program at
Georgia Tech, before completing his undergraduate degree on the GI Bill after service in World War II.
Maintaining a sharp intellect to the end, his daily morning routine was reading the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. An avid college football fan, Ed Saunders spent Saturday afternoons perusing the sports channels, never failing to miss a Georgia Tech game.
Surviving are his children Sally Saunders Huguley and her husband, Mark Huguley, of Columbia, S.C.; Stephen E. Saunders and his wife, Linda Lurwig, of Decatur, Ga., and Brian J. Saunders and his wife, Karen Wood Saunders, of Athens, Ga. Ed Saunders also had four grandchildren: Mary Hays Huguley Hepburn and husband, Grant, of Savannah, Ga.; Mark Huguley, Jr. of Madrid, Spain; Drennan Leigh Saunders and Edward Cooper Saunders, both of Athens, Ga.
A church service will be held Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 10:30 am at St. Andrew Catholic Church , 675 Riverside Road , Roswell , Georgia , 30075. A graveside service to follow at Arlington Memorial Park , 201 Mount Vernon Hwy , Sandy Springs , Georgia , 30328.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Benedictine Military School, 6502 Seawright Drive, Savannah, Georgia, 31406.
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