Salem Seeley, died at his home in Redding Thursday night. He was 95.

Born in 1909 in Fort George or, as he liked to put it, “in a farmhouse on Manhattan Island,” he lived to see a world of wonders from radio to the Internet, and reveled in every minute of it.

An NYU graduate, a talented city planner and World War II veteran ( a corporal), he moved to Connecticut in 1949 where he was director of city planning in Norwalk and director of urban renewal in Stamford.

He was a resident of Weston from 1969 to March of this year when he moved to Redding.

He was a loving husband for 56 years to Edith, who died in 1997.

He is survived by a daughter, Amy Shapiro of Weston; a son, Walter, of New York; a daughter-in-law, Meryl Gordon of New York; and a sister, Myrtle Vinson of Albuquerque, N.M.

The funeral was held Sunday, May 30, at 11 a.m. at Sharon Gardens/Kenisco Cemetery in Valhalla, N.Y.

Published in the Westport News, June 4, 2004