Photo of Garvis with his Navy buddies is courtesy of the Gabour Family. Photo of Garvis holding his nephew, Kenneth A. Bryan is courtesy of Richard Wayne Adcock.

Garvis was a highly decorated man during his military career. Garvis enlisted in the Navy at 18 years old (or possibly younger) in July 1935. He had served his 4 years in the military, and was honorably discharged when WWII broke out. He chose to go back in, and fight for his country, and basically the whole world. He also fought in the Korean War. He was in the hospital in Japan for 3 weeks during the Korean War in 1952. He was a hero. He became a very important man to the Navy, and was in charge of training thousands of men. He earned the ten medals that are listed below, and 4 good conduct medals. He left active duty in Sept. 1957 after 22 years of service.

10 Medals Awarded:

*Bronze Star Medal
*Purple Heart Medal
*Good Conduct Medal
*American Defense Service Medal
with "Fleet" Clasp
*American Campaign Medal
*Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
*European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
*World War II Victory Medal
*Nation Defense Service Medal
*Korean Service Medal
*United Nations Service Medal

Garvis was married 3, or 4 times that I know of. He only had one child that I know of, and that was with his second wife, Eadie Virginia Evans. She was born in 1917. They were first married on 24Feb1944 in Harris, TX. They divorced on Dec. 19, 1956, and then they remarried on Dec. 24, 1957 or 1958 in San Diego, CA. They divorced again on April 23, 1963. They had one child together, a son named, Edward Thomas "Tommy" Bryan. He was born in Los Angeles, CA. Tommy was the only biological child of Garvis that I know of.

Eadie called Garvis "George" a nickname that she had given him. There are some people who might know Garvis only by that name.

Garvis married Helen May Selk on June 1, 1964 in Los Angeles, CA. She was born in 1918. She had a daughter named Karen Sue Edwards. I think his step daughter's DOB was 07Aug1946.

He had a step-daughter named Misha. I don't know who her mother was.

Sadly he married a woman named Mildred Mary (unknown maiden name) in Seattle, WA. when he was very young (between 18, and 21 years old). She was his first wife. Garvis came home one day to find out that she had been taken away to jail by the authorities for being married to more than one man at a time (sailors) and drawing checks/money off of all of them. Of course that was devastating for Garvis because he was in love with her, and thought that he was the only one.

Garvis was a deputy sheriff for Los Angeles County for awhile. Then he became a forest ranger before he retired.

My dad, and (Gavis' brother), Raymond Glen Bryan told me this story about Garvis:

Garvis was a great warrior even when he was a young boy. My dad told me that he was only abt. 5 feet 7, or 8 inches tall, and so being the short guy - he began to have problems with bullies in school. At first he did get beat up, but then he came back to school the next day looking for the bullies who had beat him up. He told them, "you might be big enough to beat me up, but you are going to have to fight me again boys until you have learned your lesson." He told them, "You might even be big enough to beat me up again, but I will get a good size piece of you before you do, and then you will have to fight me again the next day! I will keep coming back for more of you. You will have to fight me again, and again, or kill me first. Sometimes he would win, if he didn't win the fight - and if they laughed, or showed him any disrespect he would hunt them down at school the following day to challenge them to fight him again. The ones that could beat him up got really wore out, and tired of fighting him. Finally when he would show up at school, and when they saw him coming - they would all start running the other way. They continued to run from him every time they saw him. After that, he was never bullied again.

Here's Another Story: They said he was so good looking that when ever he came home from the service - all of the girls (his sisters friends, and girls that just said they were his sister's friends) would show up at the families house for a visit, and a chance to see Garvis.

Thankfully he was not cremated, and he had a full body burial.

by, Wanza Bryan Good

If anyone needs to contact me, please do it with the email that I have posted on my findagrave.com profile page (not with the email that is listed here) under, Wanza Bryan Good.

Thank you.

Garvis Moody Bryan