Tom Salm

TOM SALM

North Liberty

Funeral Services for Tom Salm, 61, of North Liberty, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, May 23, at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Coralville. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the church.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the North Liberty Food Pantry, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation or the Wounded Warrior Project.

Tom was born Oct. 4, 1952, in Sigourney, Iowa, the son of August and Phyllis Peiffer Salm. He graduated from West High School. Tom married Janice Swanson April 28, 1973, at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Iowa City,

Iowa.

He was employed with Terracon since 1970, most recently serving as a senior projects manager. Tom was known to manage difficult and unusual projects in geotechnical and environmental fields. He was chairman of the Terracon Drilling Committee and was a certified welding inspector for 30 years. He had just completed rewriting the safety manual for the Iowa Department of Transportation.

In his earlier years, Tom was an active runner, involved in many runs around the U.S. He was also involved in CVTR, serving as a member for over 10 years. He was an avid participant in motocross, supporting his son in what came to be a family affair.

Tom served on the North Liberty Planning and Zoning Commission from August 1999 until December 2003, when he was elected to the North Liberty City Council. He served as a councilor, until his appointment as mayor in April 2007. He was re-elected mayor that fall and was re-elected in 2009 and 2013.

Tom served on the Johnson County Emergency Management Agency Commission since its inception in 2008, including terms as its chair in 2009 and 2013. He also served on the Highway 965 Task Force and from 2008 until 2011, the

Rural Policy Board of the Metropolitan Planning Organization of Johnson County, then the Johnson County Council of Governments.

Tom annually traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with the city's Congressional delegation and was a regular attendee of regional mayors' meetings. He created a program to recognize new local businesses and helped raise funding for the Community Library expansion.

Tom proudly served in the Iowa Army National Guard No. 294 from 1971 to 1989.

Tom's tradition was to have coffee on the weekends with North Liberty locals at Liberty Doors. He loved and took honor in his community role in North Liberty and loved its people.

Tom enjoyed his family; his five grandchildren were his greatest joys. He spent the majority of his free time with his two children and their families. He never missed any events, attending practices, games and music concerts. Weekends were spent doing family projects, family barbeques, fixing motocross bikes and attending his grandchildren's events. Tom was the rock of the family.

Survivors include his loving wife, Janice; his daughter, Christi (Creston) Turnbull and children, Kaleb and Abbey of Coralville; his son, Andy (Bobby Jo) Salm and children, Jacob, Joseph and Jackson Thomas of Tiffin; his parents, August and Phyllis of Iowa City; his

sisters, Diana (Tary) Werts of Cheyenne, Wyo., and Jean (Bill) Cooney of Thornton, Colo.; his brothers, Terry (Ellen) Salm of Vero Beach, Fla., and Randy (Denise) Salm and Jeff (Tina) Salm, all of Iowa City, his mother-in-law, Gertrude I. Swanson of Kalona; and numerous nieces, nephews, in-laws, cousins and extended family.

Tom was preceded in death by his sister, Shirley Herdliska; sister-in-law, Tammy Salm; and his father-in-law, Harry

Swanson.

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