Community Foundation of the Lowcountry

Community Foundation Elects New Trustee

January 19, 2010 -- Elected to the Community Foundation of the Lowcountry for a three-year term beginning January 18, 2010 is Martin Sauls III, the Jasper County Coroner and owner of Sauls Funeral Home of Ridgeland and Bluffton, SC.

Sauls became the owner of Sauls Funeral Home in Ridgeland at the death his father in 1979. He had been working with his father since his graduation from Louisville, Ky. Mortuary School in 1971. He opened his second location in Bluffton, SC in 2000.

In 1979 Sauls resigned from the SC Legislature to take over the family business and was appointed Jasper County Coroner by the Governor of SC and has since been elected to this position.

Sauls has served on numerous committees in both Jasper County and Beaufort County. He was the first Chairman of the Palmetto Electric PET Board. He recently served as Chairman of the Coastal Carolina Medical Center.

Sauls is a US Navy veteran of Vietnam and a resident of Ridgeland where he was born and raised.

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