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The Saloom children were Alice Marie Saloom (1909-2006), Clarence Joseph (Saloom 1910-1996), Beatrice Marie Saloom (1915-1997) Mary Agnes Azar (1916-2008),  [[Kaliste Saloom, Jr.]], Isabelle Ann Haik (1920-2007), and Richard George Saloom (1924-1999).<ref name=lahist/>  

The Saloom children were Alice Marie Saloom (1909-2006), Clarence Joseph (Saloom 1910-1996), Beatrice Marie Saloom (1915-1997) Mary Agnes Azar (1916-2008),  [[Kaliste Saloom, Jr.]], Isabelle Ann Haik (1920-2007), and Richard George Saloom (1924-1999).<ref name=lahist/>  

Kaliste Saloom, Jr., as a youth worked in the accounts department and delivered goods to customers by bicycle or horse-drawn wagon. For forty years he was the municipal court judge in Lafayette. A highly regarded local official, he obtained national recognition and in 2016, the year before his death, inducted into the [[Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame]], based in Winnfield in north Louisiana. He was also an historian.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://klfy.com/2017/12/04/kaliste-saloom-jr-a-longtime-lafayette-city-judge-and-historian-dies-at-the-age-of-99/|title=Kaliste Saloom, Jr., a longtime Lafayette city judge and historian, dies at the age of 99|author=Caroline Marcello|publisher=Klfy.com|date=December 4, 2017|accessdate=April 19, 2020}}</ref> Saloom died in Lafayette at the age of eighty-six and is interred there at the [[Roman Catholic]] St. John’s Cathedral Cemetery, along with her husband and eight children.<ref name=findagrave/><ref>“The First Families of Lafayette," ''Lafayette Daily Advertiser,'' September 9, 1979.</ref> Daughter Isabelle Haik was the mother of Suzanne Haik Terrell, a former member of the [[New Orleans]] City Council, state elections commissioner, and the unsuccessful [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate for  [[United States Senator]] in 2002 against the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Mary Landrieu]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193205934/isabelle-ann-haik|title=Isabelle Ann Saloom Haik|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 20, 2020}}</ref>

As a youth, Kaliste Saloom, Jr., worked in the accounts department at Saloom's, and delivered goods to customers by bicycle or horse-drawn wagon. For forty years he was the municipal court judge in Lafayette. A highly regarded local official, he obtained national recognition and in 2016, the year before his death, inducted into the [[Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame]], based in Winnfield in north Louisiana. He was also an historian.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://klfy.com/2017/12/04/kaliste-saloom-jr-a-longtime-lafayette-city-judge-and-historian-dies-at-the-age-of-99/|title=Kaliste Saloom, Jr., a longtime Lafayette city judge and historian, dies at the age of 99|author=Caroline Marcello|publisher=Klfy.com|date=December 4, 2017|accessdate=April 19, 2020}}</ref> Daughter Isabelle Haik was the mother of Suzanne Haik Terrell, a former member of the [[New Orleans]] City Council, state elections commissioner, and the unsuccessful [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate for  [[United States Senator]] in 2002 against the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Mary Landrieu]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193205934/isabelle-ann-haik|title=Isabelle Ann Saloom Haik|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 20, 2020}}</ref>

 

Mrs. Saloom died in Lafayette at the age of eighty-six and is interred there at the [[Roman Catholic]] St. John’s Cathedral Cemetery, along with her husband and eight children.<ref name=findagrave/><ref>“The First Families of Lafayette," ''Lafayette Daily Advertiser,'' September 9, 1979.</ref>

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