Edward J. Lavino II ’48

A Philadelphia native, Ed was born April 26, 1926, and died July 21, 2013, at home in Jupiter Island, Fla. He was 87.

He graduated from Lawrenceville and was in the Marine V-12 program at Princeton. He earned a graduate degree in ceramic engineering at Penn State.

Ed’s work career was at E.J. Lavino and Co., where he became chairman in 1968. The firm’s business interests included geothermal power, oil and gas exploration, and aircraft leasing.

Ed was an avid golfer and sailor, a big-band fan, and a collector of antique toy trains.

In 1960 he married Linda (née Harper). She died in 1985, and in 1990 he married Pamela (née Campbell), who survives him as do his children, Teddy and Linda; and two stepchildren, Rob Campbell and Shaun McCarthy, and their families.