Steven Sarvas '67

Honor Student
Steven G. Sarvas Dies Day After Graduation

Rome, NY:  Steven G. Sarvas, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton E. Sarvas of Sleepy Hollow Road, died Wednesday (June 28, 1967) at State University Hospital, Syracuse, a day after his high school class was graduated.  He had been in the hospital for six days.

He was among the winners of academic honors named at commencement exercises Tuesday,

The graduate was a  nominee to the Air Force Academy and had been accepted at the State University College in Albany.

A member of the Rome Art Association, his painting, "Autumn Inspiration" was selected as the December picture of the month.

The Sarvas family moved to Rome two years ago from California.

Surviving are his parents, two brothers, Ronald and Gerald Sarvas of Rome, and his paternal grandfather, George Sarvas of Long Beach, Calif.  Services and burial will be in California.

From the Syracuse Post Standard dated June 30, 1967

Note:  His brother emailed me that he had contracted infectious hepatitis, went into a coma and never recovered.