Welcome to In My Father's Words

My father was a writer who didn't publish his works. He was, for about 10 years, a minister whose sermons were given to me when he could no longer communicate. And he was a teacher. He taught private and public schools for the last 10 years of his working life, but he was always teaching, ever since I can remember. He taught many different things for many different organizations: everything from swimming, to flying, navigation, and much much more.

Some of his writings were given to me by my mother. Some are stories he wrote but never published, and some are sermons that also were never published. I am putting them on this blog for his children, my sister and me, and for his grandchildren and great grandchildren.

The writings are not in order, and I don't have the dates for many of them. Some of the writings I put into a handout for his grandchildren at his funeral: this was title, In His Own Words. I will add to this blog when time permits and I hope to put all that came to me up here over the next months and years.

Clevis Owen Laverty was born on April 18, 1917 to Merton and Mabel Laverty. In his life, he was news reporter, an officer in the last mounted cavalry in the Panama Canal Zone, a navigator for Pan American Airlines, a Merchant Mariner in the Second World War on the Boston to Murmansk route, a teacher at a radio school in Boston Mass., an automobile parts sales person, a whole bread truck driver, a retail bread truck driver, a Methodist minister, and a high school English teacher. He first went to Colby College right out of high school, and he returned to college at the University of New Hampshire when I was 14. He ended up with a BA and an MA in English Literature.