Edward Patrick Lavelle III

71, retired elementary school principal for Fountain Valley School District, died Monday fromcomplications after heart surgery at Saddleback Memorial Hospital in Laguna Hills. Lavelle was born in 1935 and raised in Scranton, PA. He attended the University of Scranton, was a Jesuit seminarian, and later a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps before marrying his nowdeceased wife Mary Mcleod in Long Beach, Ca. in 1963. Soon thereafter, he became an educator and distinguished principal, as well as an active member of Saint Simon and Jude and Holy Spirit Catholic Church. He will be remembered for his love of family, friends, golf, and the Fighting Irish.

He is survived by his three daughters, a son, and nine grandchildren. Mary, his wife of forty-one years, died of breast cancer in 2004. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. A funeral mass will be held on Friday, February 23 at 10.00am at St. John Vianney Roman Catholic Church on Balboa Island in Newport Beach.