Roy F. Clavey, 77, whose F. D. Clavey Ravinia Nurseries once provided ivy for the Wrigley Field walls and landscaping throughout the North Shore, died Sunday at Winchester House nursing home, Libertyville.
Mr. Clavey, of Vernon Hills, was born in 1908 in Highland Park. After attending Northwestern Military Academy in Lake Geneva, Wis., he joined the Highland Park nursery that his family had founded in 1885.
Mr. Clavey helped perfect the Clavey dwarf honeysuckle, a plant used in landscaping.
He later became president of the nursery, once one of the largest on the North Shore. The business supplied plants and landscaping for the Chicago Park District and the 1933 World's Fair, and provided the original ivy to cover the outfield walls at Wrigley Field.
Construction of the Tri-State Tollway forced the nursery from Highland Park, and it operated in Deerfield and Lake Villa before going out of business.
Clavey Road in Highland Park was named for his late father, Frederick, who had been the town's road commissioner.
Mr. Clavey was past director of the American Association of Nurserymen and was a member of the Deerfield District 109 School Board.
Roy F. Clavey, 77, whose F. D. Clavey Ravinia Nurseries once provided ivy for the Wrigley Field walls and landscaping throughout the North Shore, died Sunday at Winchester House nursing home, Libertyville.
Mr. Clavey, of Vernon Hills, was born in 1908 in Highland Park. After attending Northwestern Military Academy in Lake Geneva, Wis., he joined the Highland Park nursery that his family had founded in 1885.
Mr. Clavey helped perfect the Clavey dwarf honeysuckle, a plant used in landscaping.
He later became president of the nursery, once one of the largest on the North Shore. The business supplied plants and landscaping for the Chicago Park District and the 1933 World's Fair, and provided the original ivy to cover the outfield walls at Wrigley Field.
Construction of the Tri-State Tollway forced the nursery from Highland Park, and it operated in Deerfield and Lake Villa before going out of business.
Clavey Road in Highland Park was named for his late father, Frederick, who had been the town's road commissioner.
Mr. Clavey was past director of the American Association of Nurserymen and was a member of the Deerfield District 109 School Board.
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