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Lawrence Savino Obituary
Lawrence Joseph Savino, age 65, of Somis, passed away suddenly on Saturday, Oct. 2 at home.
Lawrence was born on July 23, 1945 in the Bronx, N.Y., and has been a Ventura County resident for the past 38 years after moving here from the San Fernando Valley. He retired as psych tech from the Camarillo State Hospital after it closed in 1997. He then went to work for the Ventura County Mental Health where he retired just last year. Lawrence served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam Campaign and received a Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
He is survived by his brothers, Carl Savino and Michael Savino, and many loving friends.
A service will be held privately in New York. Arrangements were made with the assistance of Griffin Family Funeral Chapels, Camarillo; 482-1166.
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Peter Aline
May 27, 2013
Again, on this Memorial Day, Thank You for the life long sacrifices you made so we could live our fortunate lives. Never Forget.
Jennifer Griffis
July 23, 2012
Happy Birthday Larry. You are loved and missed as much as ever.
May 11, 2012
Larry, I was saddened to learn of your passing today. Your sense of humor, the jokes you played and teaching all of us ( patients and coworkers) how to play stick ball in the day yard will always be in my memory. Thank you for your service and I'll talk to you in my prayers. It was an honor to know you and I'm a better person for it. I bet the thrift stores and fishing are great in heaven!! Enjoy! Love you, Julie Simmons
Izzy Seale
November 11, 2011
Larry. Today is 11-11-11 and my heart goes to you and all your loving friends and family for the time that you gave for our county. You will always be a special friend because you made alot of us laugh and enjoy life. From one of the gang of CSH... See you as a angel gaurding over us. Isabella Seale
Myron Dimmett
November 10, 2011
Larry,
We've thought of you and spoke of you many times during the past year. Oh, how we would love to have another chance to have lunch with you and the old gang from CSH.....it's pretty amazing how you touched so many peoples lives and how much we all miss you.....Rest in peace. Myron & Kathleen
Jennifer Griffis
November 9, 2011
Larry,
Even though you've been gone over a year now, not a day goes by that I don't miss you. I wish more than anything we'd had more time together, but the impact you had on me endures and you will never be forgotten. You were a precious gift for which I will be forever grateful. Love always, Jennifer
Steve F.
November 8, 2011
Larry;
I was in the mountains last month, in the area we often went fishing. You came to mind with each cast. (you never could cast). You are missed!
Good By Larry,
yvonne trainor
November 8, 2011
Larry--If it hasn't been a year--it soon will be.
One last miss you, as so many still do! But also wanted to Thank you one more time for "Serving our country"!--My annual thank you to you. See you @ some point in time--always, yvonne
February 11, 2011
Linda Paladino
February 10, 2011
To my best friend who has grown with me for the past fouty years, and how wonderful it has been to always know we will always remain dear friends. I am overwhelmed and I find it very hard to believe I will no longer speak with you, but I will through prayers. I only hope that (my friend) there was no suffering and God spared all pain for the most kindest man I know. I will always keep you in my prayers and know someday we will meet again. As for now just rest in peace.
I love you
Linda
February 8, 2011
Larry (Ben) I just found out today of your passing. I really can't believe it. All I can think about is our days growing up and hanging out in the Bronx with everyone from the neighborhood on 225th street. I think about the times me, you and either Carl or Mike went fishing from City Island, playing big ball stickball at PS 103 with Ray, Cuzie and Charlie and playing pool in the "hole", Chuckies pool room. Larry my sister Linda told me of your passing and I will tell you that she is distraught over this because she did not get to speak to you one last time. What bothers me even more is that I was just thinking about you this week and was going to ask her for your phone number. In any case, rest in peace my old friend and I can only hope that we meet again some day. Nick Godano
Amelia Turse
November 14, 2010
Dear Larry, I agree with all the nice things others have said about you. What ever ingredients God gave you at birth can never be duplicated, the mold was broken. One of my fondest memories of you will always be the night time cruise on the Ventura Keys to celebrate your birthday and you thought Steve invited you to go fishing. Huh.. You were greeted by your cheering friends and we all new that we finally got you. You should never have said, "I couldn't be surprized by anything". Thank you for being you.
Steve Fleischer
November 11, 2010
Hi Larry: I entered a message the first day your guest book was posted. That message was meant for the other people who will read it. Larry, this is to you.
It is Nov 11th. Vets. Day. I went fishing today but I could not stop thinking of you and all the other vets who gave so much for our country. I know about your Purple Heart and I know why you got it. I also know that if you wanted an early discharge, you could have had it. You unselfishly did your duty and much, much more. I will miss our trips to June Lake and other fishing excursions. For me you were one of the easiest men to talk to, about any topic, money, love, fear, it didn't matter. Everybody needs someone he can bare his soul to. You were one of those guys. Today, I released my first catch in your honor, I will, every time I go fishing,until I stop thinking of you. I have lost a lot of fishing buddies over the years. The older I get the faster they go. I miss them all, but none so much as you. I believe that I will never quit releasing fish.
Kathleen Dimmett
November 7, 2010
Hey Larry, Just wanted to reflect a little bit about the best 10 years I had working at CSH in Admissions with you. Remember your first day in Admisssions and you took me out to Denny's for a Brandy Alexander for lunch. We shared it as neither one of us was much of a drinker. That was the beginning of a wonderful friendship. Dan Donnelly, Manny Toscano, you and I were working together and made quite a team on the PM shift. I loved going to work.
You took my son Jeff, under your wing and with your guidance, started him buying gold with his paper route money at age 10 through age 15. He still has those numismatic coins that you had him buy, 27 years later.
Remember the first aid that I administered to you when you carved the poison oak branch for the parrot you and Dawn had; when you had your bike accident and sat there in your boxers while I administered first aid to your knee on the examining table.
The party at Amelia Turse's house for you and Manny Toscano's "grooms" party was so much fun and the pictures were indescribeable.
When Carly would come to visit you in Admissions, you and he would instantly change into that fast talking Bronx accent that would make us all laugh. No one could keep up with the jokes and stories of New York that would come tumbling out of the mouths of you two insanely funny brothers.
I was always amazed with the treasures that you and Manny would come back with after you did your hospital dump-yard diving. They would make a reality show about you two now.
You had a unique gift of working with people to get them to do something for you, kind of like Tom Sawyer. A case in point was the BBQ that you had plant ops employees make for you with only the promise that they would be invited to a BBQ dinner at Admissions.
Remember the time when you dyed your hair with some dye from Pic & Save and it turned your beautiful gray hair purple. You didn't want anyone to know that you dyed your hair, so you blamed it on Zithromax antibiotic that the hospital was giving out for the pneumonia epidemic. What a good laugh we all had about that.
I loved it when you and I would dance the cowboy cha-cha. The best song was Neon Moon by Brooks and Dunn. I never would have thought that you would have become a C & W fan and go boot-scooting.
There are so many other wonderful memories and I smile when I remember them. I feel sad that there will not be other memories to be made for awhile. Just save a place at your table of friends in heaven for me so I will again be able to laugh and enjoy the wonderful friendship we have.
Myron Dimmett
November 1, 2010
Larry:
Kathleen and I were so deeply saddened to hear of your death. Your wonderful sense of humor is known by all. The ability to take a situation like a recent traffic ticket you felt was undeserved and turn it into a 5 minute stand up routine that had everyone in the room laughing until they cried was something you did seeminly with ease. I am so glad we got together at BJs with other friends and took a few photos just days before your untimely passing...how could we have known? May you rest in peace my friend...God won't have a dull moment up there now.......Myron
Barbara Cox
October 24, 2010
I was saddened to hear of Larry's passing. I have fond memories of working with him at CAM and having him for a next door neighbor in the Homes for many years. His quick wit and boundless sense of humor were amazing. I thank him for his service in the military ; he was a hero. Rest in eternal peace, my friend----Heaven has a new angel.
Manny Toscano
October 22, 2010
Larry...you were a great friend and co-worker.Your passion,humor and quick wit were second to none.I will cherish the memories of our adventures working together at CSH.You could take nothing and make something out of it.When you were finished...it took om a life of its own!
Thanks for the terrific memories friend.You will be greatly missed. Manny&Jennifer(Paso Robles,Ca)
October 22, 2010
Larry....you were a great friend and co-worker.Your humor,intensity and quick wit were second to none.You could make something out of nothing,when you were finished with it....it took on a life of its own.Remember the English 101 class you ,I and Jen took at Oxnard College?We had a blast thanks to you.I will cherish the memories of our adventures working at CSH, they have become some of my golden memories.........Manny& Jen Toscano (Paso Robles,Calif)
Mike De Los Santos
October 19, 2010
Dear Savino Family,
Thank you for sharing Larry with us. I met Larry at the Ventura County Sheriff's Department East County Station several years ago. He was a caring guy with a great sense of humor. He was a God send when we needed assistance with a mental health client. He would always go out of his way to assist us and the client. I never knew about the Bronze Star and Purple Heart - It did not surprise me, what a Hero! My family will keep Larry and your family in our prayers. Sincerely,
Isabell Seale
October 18, 2010
Larry was the best co-worker I ever had on ward 66. Always making me laugh and telling me stories of his time in the military. What a great guy to leave us so soon. I will always keep him in my heart. God Bless. Izzy Seale
April Ellis
October 17, 2010
Larry, you have been a part of our family for many years. I will never forget your knock on our door, the joy you brought to our home, your many jokes, and Monday night football with you and my dad. I'm sorry for torturing you all those years and hiding my Halloween candy from you. You have been a great friend to my dad and a great "uncle" to me and Cody. Thank you for always helping me with my english homework, I would never have been able to analyze poems without you. You will truly be missed. Much love and peace.
Peter Aline
October 17, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
I went out to the Hospital today. “Home One” is completely gone, but not my memories. I went down to 66. It was weird, the doors were unlocked. I went in and walked around. Deserted, eerie and quiet; abandoned. No remodeling yet. I stood in the Day-hall where we sat so many nights, rediscovering the “art of conversation.” The Sun porch where you brought your weight set so we could work out at night. Do Bench Presses you said, not sit-ups: “If ya get your pects big enough, women won’t notice the gut.”
I will always miss you, but I will never forget.
Frani (Miller) Storzbach
October 16, 2010
Larry, your laughter and sense of humor will live on forever in my memories of you. That, and our shared New York accents!
Frani (Miller) Storzbach
October 16, 2010
Dear Larry, One of my biggest regrets was not being able to stay just a little longer in California last year, and missing the opportunity to see you at the reunion. It was so nice to see your picture on Facebook, but I really wanted to see and talk to you again. I will always remember you teasing me as you delivered patients to the Admission units where I worked. Our common bond was that we both were NYC transplants, a bond automatically created the first time we heard each other's accents.
My husband Dan played Poker with you, Chuck and Galen, years before I met any of you, years before I'd even heard of Cam.
I am so sorry that you are gone, so sorry to have missed you, so sad that I've missed the only chance I could have had to see you and hear your laughter again. I wanted so much to reconnect with the people whose lives crossed paths with mine in those 1980's days. We may not have realized it back then, but the staff at CSH was a really close knit community.
More than anything, I will always remember your laughter, your jokes, your smiling face. Larry, I miss you.
Love, Frani (Miller) Storzbach
Peter Aline
October 16, 2010
I went out to the Hospital today. “Home One” is completely gone, but not my memories. I went down to 66. It was weird, the doors were unlocked. I went in and walked around. Deserted, eerie and quiet; abandoned. No remodeling yet. I stood in the Day-hall where we sat so many nights, rediscovering the “art of conversation.” The Sun porch where you brought your weight set so we could work out at night. Do Bench Presses you said, not sit-ups: “If ya get your pects big enough, women won’t notice the gut.”
I will always miss you, but I will never forget.
Jennifer Griffis
October 15, 2010
Larry, you will always be one of my favorite people on the planet! You were such a gift to me, and my kids. We will never forget you, and always love you. Jennifer
Debra-Fleischer Moore
October 15, 2010
You will live forever in our hearts Larry.
David Farley
October 15, 2010
It was a pleasure to be your friend, I'm really going to miss you, Dodger games won't be the same without you. Your friend always til we meet again.
David and Vicki Rodriguez/Poteet
October 14, 2010
It is said to see another Camarillo State Hospital co-worker gone. He was a wonderful guy, and a great Psych. Tech. Enjoyed working with him. We have good memories of our time at Cam.
Edie Gransee
October 14, 2010
Larry was one of a kind. Quick witted, great sense of humor, a great guy to work with. Thanks for serving our country and thanks for being you, Larry. You will be missed.
Lynne Brady
October 14, 2010
Larry had a joke for just about every occasion. We always knew he would tell the leprechaun joke on St. Patrick's Day. This year we will tell it in his memory, laughing at the punch line but never telling it quite as good as he could. I miss you Larry.
October 14, 2010
May the love of friends and family carry you through your grief.
Ben Duarte
October 14, 2010
Larry, what a fun guy! your clinician skills and rapport made you a favorite with staff and residents alike. God
Bless. Ben and Ruth Duarte
(MR. O.T.)
Steve Fleischer
October 14, 2010
The good guys go 1st. My family and I will miss you.
October 14, 2010
Good guys go first! You will always live in my memory. Steve Fleischer
Carla Gilmour
October 14, 2010
I graduated from the psych tech program with Larry in the 70's. A very fun and caring man. I wish I had kept in contact he was a good friend. RIP Larry you will never be forgotten and you truly had a lot of friends.
Yvonne Trainor
October 14, 2010
Larry,Just in Somis today @ the local vet & buying one of the best burritos in town (or should I say village [luv Somis])--Can't help but to enter Somis & not think about you! I'll give you my annual, "Thank you for serving in the military for our country," a little bit early this year (Veteran's Day). Keep on spreading your witty since of humor--they may keep you up there--love always, Yvonne
Lori B
October 14, 2010
Larry,Your were such an amazing man with your own since of humor. You will be missed by many people and never forgotten. RIP
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