More detail on this person: Anthony "Tony"
Lavite Jr., 82, a retired U.S. Army colonel, died
Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2005, in Weatherford.
Graveside service: 10 a.m. Friday in Dallas-Fort
Worth National Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m.
Thursday at White's Funeral Home. Memorials: In
lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be
directed to the Parker County Livestock
Improvement Association for Parker County Youth,
Box 1744, Weatherford, Texas, or to Meals on
Wheels, 1225 Holland Lake Drive, Weatherford.
Anthony Lavite Jr. was born Dec. 17, 1922, in New
Orleans, La., to Anthony Lavite Sr. and Mary
DeGange Lavite. He was a graduate of Warren
Easton High School and Louisiana State University.
Col. Lavite entered the U.S. Army in 1945 as an
enlisted man. He served his country for 32 years,
including World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Col.
Lavite retired in 1973 as commandant of the U.S.
Army Primary Flight School at Fort Wolters.
Tony married Geri Boyce in 1965 and moved to
Weatherford in 1972. He was a member of the
Parker County Sheriff's Posse, a rancher and
cattleman, and raised Jack Russell Terriers.
Tony was preceded in death by his parents and a
son, Capt. Anthony Lavite III, killed in Vietnam
in 1969.
Survivors: Wife, Geri Lavite of Weatherford; son,
Jerry "Butch" Lavite and wife, Deborah, of
Missouri; daughter, Cathy Pfaltzgraff and husband,
Dennis, of Killeen; five grandchildren; nine
great-grandchildren; sister, Mary "Honey Girl"
Crovetto of Mandeville, La.; sister-in-law, Anne
Onderdonk of Amityville, N.Y.; mother-in-law,
Marie Boyce of Amityville, N.Y.; nieces, Mia James
and husband, Jeff, of Baton Rouge, La., Cara Vann
and husband, Greg, of Houston and Kristin Horan
and husband, Paul, of Ireland; and nephew, Eric
Onderdonk and wife, Kristen, of Amityville, N.Y.
Published in the Star-Telegram on 2/17/2005.
Burial information: Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery
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