Felix Octave Pavy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Felix Octave Pavy

Louisiana physician and politician

Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1879

Place of Birth: Grand Coteau, Louisiana, United States

Date of Death: 13-May-1962

Profession: physician, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Felix Octave Pavy

  • Felix Octave Pavy (November 27, 1879 – May 13, 1962), was a medical doctor and Democratic politician from Opelousas, Louisiana. Pavy was the uncle by marriage of Dr.
  • Carl Weiss, the presumed assassin of Huey Pierce Long Jr.
  • His brother, Judge Benjamin Pavy of the Louisiana 16th Judicial District Court, was the father-in-law of Dr.
  • Weiss.
  • Dr.
  • Pavy's father-in-law was the attorney Gilbert L.
  • Dupré, who from 1913 to 1932 was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
  • Dr.
  • Pavy succeeded his father-in-law in the House and served a single term from 1932 to 1936.Pavy was born in Grand Coteau in St.
  • Landry Parish.
  • He attended the former St.
  • Charles College in Grand Coteau, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and Tulane University School of Medicine, from which he received his M.D.
  • degree in 1904.
  • He practiced medicine first for many years in rural Leonville in St.
  • Landry Parish; in 1947, he moved to Opelousas, where he remained until his death in the spring of 1962 of a two-month illness.Pavy was a past president of the St.
  • Landry Parish School Board.
  • A long-term member of the St.
  • Landry Parish Police Jury, he was for seventeen years the president of that body.
  • In 1928, four years before his election to the state House of Representative, Pavy had opposed Huey Long by running as an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor against the Long-designated choice, Paul Cyr, a dentist from Jeanerette in Iberia Parish.
  • Cyr later broke with the Longs. At the time of his death, Dr.
  • Pavy was vice-president of the gravity drainage district in Arnaudville.
  • He was affiliated with fraternal benefit society, the Woodmen of the World, and both the St.
  • Landry and Louisiana state medical societies.
  • After services in the St.
  • Landry Roman Catholic Church, Dr.
  • Pavy was interred beside his wife, the former Fannie Estilette Dupré (1882-1957), who was the daughter of Representative Dupré, and their infant daughter, Marie Laperle Pavy (1908-1909) at the Myrtle Grove Cemetery in Opelousas.

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