Garland Miller Lasater ’29

Gar died in his native Texas Aug. 18, 1997. He had prepared for college at Andover. At Princeton he was in Ivy Club.

He was president and general manager of Falfurias Creamery Co. and Falfurias Mercantile Co. and also had a cattle operation. In addition, he was a polo player. He was active in almost countless community and county affairs as well as businesses, including one year as sheriff. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce and County Improvement Society, Jersey Cattle Club, and Texas Dairy Products Instuitute, and for 18 years was a director of the Texas College of Arts and Industry. He was a director of the First Natl. Bank and a ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Gar was an ardent flyer, having graduated from the Air Force Advanced Flying School in 1929, and con-tinued to fly until age 70.

During the war he was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force. In 1935 Gar married Carolyn Adams Kampmann. She predeceased him, but their four children survive: Edward A., Garland M. Jr., Peggy Lasater Clark, and Ike K. The class extends sincere sympathy to Gar's family.

The Class of 1929