Lavenia Ann Gallipo, age 83, went to be with the Lord on October 8, 2019. She was born in San Antonio, Texas on October 11, 1935 and was the youngest of seven children. Lavenia was a loving wife and mother who will be greatly missed.
Lavenia was preceded in death by her parents, Dennis Lafayette Bates and Ida Magdalena Klein; her siblings, Katherine Edith Bates, Virginia Laura Bates, Dennis Leslie Bates, Morgan Freeman Bates, Allen Clark Bates and John Jacob Bates; her husband, Clifford James Gallipo, Sr. and her daughter, Katherine Renee Gallipo. She is survived by her son, Clifford James Gallipo, Jr. and his fiancé, Hiyori Macy.
"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
~Emily Dickinson
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