Sophie Ritrosky Salo
Nov. 1919 Jan. 2021
Sophie Ritrosky Salo, a resident of Davis for more than 25 years, passed away peacefully in bed at her home in the early evening of New Year’s Day.
Sophie was born in Greenport, N.Y., on the first WWI Armistice Day anniversary in 1919, commemorating the end of WWI. Her mother was Anna Procak, born in Shenandoah/Blackwood, Penn.; and her father was Josephat Ritrosky, born in Galicia Province, Austria.
Sophie married her husband, Michael V. Salo, in January 1942 and they remained happily married for more than 64 years. Her husband Mike, a U.S. Navy veteran from WWII, passed away in 2006 and was interred in the Military Veterans section of the Davis Cemetery on Pole Line Road, where Sophie will also be interred.