Stafford "Stack" Peveto

Stafford (Stack) Odom Peveto, Jr., of Orange, Texas, passed away on August 15, 2018.

Funeral services will be held at 3:00 p.m., Saturday, August 18, 2018, at Claybar Funeral Home, on 5th Street, in Orange, Texas. Graveside service to follow at Bland Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., on Saturday, August 18, 2018 at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange.

Born in Orange, Texas, on December 25, 1924, he was the son of Stafford O. Peveto, Sr. and Lena Lorene Peveto. He graduated from Orange High School. Stack served as a Torpedo Man on “The U.S. Bushell” in World War II for 26 months. After the war, he worked in Orange County for several companies including Sabine Supply Co., Dupont, Chemstrand, Spencer Chem. Co. & Gulf Chemical Co. Stack loved “Horse Trading”. He retired at 55 years of age to become a full time “trader”. He was an avid deer and duck hunter. If time allowed, he would go country and western or Cajun dancing up to 4 nights a week.

Stack was preceded in death by his wife, Altha Rae Stanton Peveto; sisters, Mary Alice Brown, and Helen Eliane Mattox; and brother, Frank Leonard Peveto.

Stack is survived by sons, Rodney V. Peveto and wife Cynthia A. Peveto of Plano, Texas, and Billy C. Peveto and wife Nancy Peveto of Buna, Texas; grandchildren, Andrew Peveto, Teri Daigle, Lisa Crumpton, and Amy McIlwain; and great-grandchildren, Macy and Chris Peveto, Ty Daigle, Tanner, Trace and Carli Crumpton, and Cameron, Colton, and Carson McIlwain.

Serving as pallbearers will be Duke and Ty Daigle, Stuart Marks, Tanner and Trace Crumpton, Drew Peveto, Randy, Cameron, and Colton McIlwain.

The family would like to extend a special thanks to Kindred Hospice, Pine Arbor, and Loretta McManus.