Longtime Pacific Palisades and Malibu resident Anthony (‘Tony’) DeVivo died April 28. He was 81. Tony was born December 28, 1922, in Denver, Colorado, to Mary and Aniello DeVivo. He grew up in the Palisades, attended University High School and served as a second lieutenant and pilot in the Army Air Force. Following his discharge, he operated Tony’s Auto Service in Santa Monica until 1962, when he became a real estate broker and opened Malibu Sierra Realty. Tony had a wide range of interests and aptitudes. In addition to being a skilled pilot, he could run a bulldozer, repair a watch, broker a complex land deal, design and build a fire protection system or rehabilitate an animal. He was one of the Malibu hardies who, when burned out, just cleared the land and built bigger and better. Tony married Marie Moss in 1950 and moved to the Palisades to help raise his stepson, Berk. He divorced and moved to Malibu in the early ’70s, and married Earleen Strong, a professor of psychology at Valley College in Van Nuys, in 1976. Earleen died a few weeks before her husband. Tony is survived by his stepsons, Berk Moss of Newberg, Oregon, and David Strong of Thousand Oaks; stepdaughters Rachel Carroll of Half Moon Bay and Rhoda Hoisington of Nine Mile Falls, Washington; and seven grandchildren. A celebration of Tony’s life was held on May 22.
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