Carl George LAVSA

1922 - 2006  (83 years)

• Name	Carl George LAVSA
  Birth	10 Mar 1922	New York
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Feb 2006	Maryland
  	last residence Annapolis
  Burial	Arlington National Cemetery
  Notes	The announcement in the 22 February 1946 edition of the Kingston (N.Y.) Daily Freeman: “Mr. and Mrs. Carl G. Lavsa of Washington, D.C., announce the birth of a son, Carl George Lavsa, Jr., born Tuesday at the Providence Hospital, Washington. Mrs. Lavsa is the former Miss Theodora L. Ross of Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. Lavsa is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Lavsa of Port Ewen. A veteran of World War II, having served in the naval air forces for 3½ years, 19 months of which were spent in the southwest Pacific area, he received his honorable discharge October 17, 1945. He is now connected with the P.C.A. at Washington National Airport. His obit: Carl George Lavsa Sr., 83, of Annapolis and previously of Clinton, died of cancer Jan. 7 at his home after a four-year illness. Born March 10, 1922, in Kingston, N.Y., where he graduated from Kingston High School, Mr. Lavsa attended aviation school at the former Roosevelt Field on Long Island, N.Y. He served in the Navy during World War II as an aviation machinist 1st class. Mr. Lavsa was a crew chief for Northwest Airlines at Washington National-Ronald Reagan Airport from 1948 until retiring in 1992. As a hobby, he built to scale models of the wooden ships that once plied the Hudson River and donated them to the Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston. He also enjoyed traveling extensively by train. Surviving are his wife, Theodora Lavsa, whom he married in 1945; one son, Carl H. Lavsa Jr. of Port Republic in Calvert County; one daughter, Valerie J. Fridley of Shady Side; two sisters, Wilma Lemister of Port Ewen, N.Y., and Patricia French of Aurora, Colo.; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Visitation is from 2 to 4 and 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday at Kalas Funeral Home, 2973 Solomons Island Road, Edgewater, where services will follow. Burial will be private.
  Person ID	I20398	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	12 Oct 2022

  
  

  Family	Theodora Lorraine ROSS,   b. 9 Sep 1924, Hennepin County, Minnesota d. 11 Sep 2017, Maryland (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	5 May 1945	Hennepin County, Minnesota
  Family ID	F14779	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 May 2014