This 1948 street takes its name from Paul Wampler Garvey (1895-1976), who subdivided a tract here with business partner E. Kline Stickney (see Klinedale Avenue). Garvey was born into a large farming family in rural Missouri but the whole clan packed up and moved to the outskirts of Modesto, CA in 1910. That’s where he married Elva Irene Heiny (1894-1968) in 1917. A dairy truck driver at the time, he got into growing apricots and grapes after evading the WWI draft. In 1923, the couple and their little daughter Reva left Modesto for Pasadena and Garvey got into the homebuilding business. His name was no longer associated with Stickney’s after 1952 and he may have retired altogether that year; all I know is that he wound up in Arcadia.
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