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Note: His obituary appeared in The Atlantic City Press, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, on say 6 July 1959. It read:
William S. Halteman
Retired Carpenter, 79
William S. Halteman, 79, of 43 East Revere Ave., Northfield, died in the Mayfair Nursing Home, Somers Point, Sunday after a month's illness.
A resident of Northfield 40 years, he was a retired carpenter. Mr. Halteman was a member of the Artisans and Central Methodist Church of Linwood.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Mary Wolfram of Northfield; two sons, Loren R. of Denver, Colo., and William E. of Alexandra, Va., and one grandson.
Services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m., with the Rev. Sheppard Joslin of Central Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Atlantic City Cemetery, Pleasantville.24
His funeral was held in Parsels Funeral Home, Pleasantville, Atlantic County, New Jersey. The 2 p.m. service was conducted by the Rev. Sheppard Joslin, pastor of Central Methodist Church, Linwood, N.J.. The pallbearers were his nephew, Eugene Halteman, his wife's nephew, Lawrence E Woods, Tiny Robert Bishop, Charles Henry Wolfram, and family friends Willliam Delaney and Mulford Potter. Also attending, from among his family were his son William, his cousins Jo McNamara, Anne Kirckoffer, Frank L. Gresh and his wife, Walter J. Fitzpatrick and his daughter Alice English. William S. Halteman was buried on 8 July 1959 in Atlantic City Cemetery, Pleasantville, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
He played a slide trombone, which he bought in November 1898 from George Deimer. He started to play with a band in January 1900, and joined the Spring City band. Their band festival, in which he played, was on Aug. 18, 1900: they cleared $110. He later played with the Germania Band of Norristown, Pennsylvania for the Evansbury Festival on June 14, 1902, and he later joined that band. He first heard John Philip Sousa and his band in concert at Mullan Grove, when he played there from May 30th to June 28th 1902; Sousa then played at the Steeple Chase Pier, Atlantic City. In later years, he would take every opportunity he could to see John Philip Sousa and his band whenever they would play on the Atlantic City boardwalk. He loved their march music. He could also sing; he had a rich bass voice. He resisted the efforts of the church organist, and of Mae Bessor, who pleaded with him, to recruit him for the church choir.
William S. Halteman was by trade, a carpenter. He was by necessity, a driver, a deliveryman, for the laundry operated by his wife's brother-in-law. He joined Carpenters and Joiners Union No. 997 on 18 February 1902 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
William S. Halteman went to the Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Monday, 29 January 1912. He started to take dancing lessons. This was when he met Mary Woods and her daughter Ida. They would not meet again for eight years. He asked Ida to dance and she found that he had two left feet; he stepped on her toes. William S. Halteman and Ida Gregory Woods were engaged on 23 July 1921. William S. Halteman married Ida Gregory Woods, daughter of William Woods and Mary E. Bissett, on 28 September 1921 at 124 Second Street, Pleasantville, Atlantic County, New Jersey. The Rev. J. L. Surtees, pastor of Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church, Pleasantville, performed the ceremony. The newspaper, in reporting the marriage, declared that the groom was from a prominent Philadelphia family.
The matron of honor was the bride's sister, May Kline, and the best man was her brother, Charles Woods. The bride's niece, Ruth Woods, was the flower girl. Delma Kline played Lohengrin's Wedding March on the piano. There were 10 others present, none from the groom's family, at the 7 p.m. ceremony.
Also present was the bride's mother, Mary Woods, her sister-in-law, Isabelle Woods, nieces Alverna and Margaret, and nephew Laurence Woods. Also, her cousin Lilian Woods Buck and her husband, William Ray Buck. Mrs. John Anderson, Mrs. Mary McCue and Mrs. Charles Wiesenberger completed the guest list.
Following the wedding breakfast, the couple left on the 9:09 p.m. train for Niagara Falls, and other places. A good number of friends showed up to wish them well.
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