WILLIAM O. SALIVAR, 74,

a Green Valley resident for the past seven years, and formerly of Chicago, Ill., passed away Oct. 5, 2008.

Born June 22, 1934, in Rockford, Ill., he served as a medical corpsman in the U.S. Navy.

He spent some wonderful years growing up in far northern Minnesota. He studied and received degrees from the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin, as well as doing post-doctoral research at CalTech. He was a microbiologist who did research on bacteriophages and ended his career working for UOP, Inc. in Arlington Heights, Ill.

He was preceded in death by his father Joseph.

He is survived by his wife Sandra (Siuda); sons Jeremy and Michael; and stepmother Margaret Salivar. He will also be missed by his in-laws in Buffalo, N.Y.

A funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008, at Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church.