{"id":110555,"date":"2025-05-19T17:49:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T17:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/?p=110555"},"modified":"2025-06-11T17:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:52:05","slug":"donald-e-saylor-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/19\/donald-e-saylor-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald E. Saylor, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Donald E. Saylor, Jr., age 96, of Inverness, FL, passed away on May 19, 2025.&nbsp; Don was born on June 9, 1928, in West Conshohocken, PA to the late Donald E. Saylor, Sr. and Edna K. (Kriebel) Saylor.&nbsp; After graduating from Norristown High School class of 1947, Don served as a member of the United States Army of Occupation Forces in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don first worked in sales for Dettra Flag Co. in Oaks, PA and later banking became his profession as a VP at Commonwealth Federal Savings and Loan and Cambria Savings Bank in PA. After relocating to Seminole, FL, He served as VP of Franklin Savings and Loan and ending his career as a SR VP of Anchor Savings Bank in St, Petersburg. He retired to Inverness, FL in 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019s many Masonic affiliations included being a Member of Charity Lodge #190 F and A M and in 2024 received his 70<sup>th<\/sup> year Masonic Service Award from the Grand Lodge of PA., Commandry #95 Knights Templar and Member of the Valley of Allentown 32<sup>nd<\/sup> Degree AASR.&nbsp; He was a Past Grand Tall Cedar of Norristown Forest #31, Tall Cedars of Lebanon and was elected Supreme Tall Cedar of the United States in 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don was a life member of the American Legion Post #273 in Madeira Beach, FL and was actively involved in VFW Post #4337 in Inverness where he served for many years as the Commander of the Honor Guard and Post Commander in 2011-2012 and 2023-2024. He took great pride in the service to veterans through the Post and the Honor Guard.&nbsp; He cherished his band of brothers, the fine group of men and women he served beside.&nbsp; Don believed that the post was his second family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Left to cherish his memory is Daughter, Donna S. Rubert and Husband, Chris, 5 Grandchildren, 7 Great Grandchildren and devoted companion, Nell Johnson. He was preceded in death by his loving wife of 30 years, Ann N. Saylor, and his son David W. Saylor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His remains will be laid to rest at the Florida National Cemetery, Bushnell, FL. on July 16, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. The procession to the cemetery will depart the funeral home at 10:15 sharp. Arrangements being made by Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald E. Saylor, Jr., age 96, of Inverness, FL, passed away on May 19, 2025.&nbsp; Don was born on June 9, 1928, in West Conshohocken, PA to the late Donald E. Saylor, Sr. and Edna K. (Kriebel) Saylor.&nbsp; After graduating from Norristown High School class of 1947, Don served as a member of the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990003,"featured_media":110558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/990003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110556,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110555\/revisions\/110556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}