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Happy birthday, dear Frank Pavese - you re still just a kid!
Frank Pavese Sr. is widely acknowledged to be a man of consequence.
Indeed, this scion of one of Fort Myers oldest families was named one of the community s People of Influence by The News-Press as the paper celebrated its 130th year in 2014.
Frank s father was Thomas Edison s barber when the inventor was in town at his Caloosahatchee riverfront estate. My dad s shop was right on First Street, next to the old Fort Myers Bank, Frank told me a few years ago. Edison and his next-door neighbor, Henry Ford, used to show up every few days for shaves and haircuts, Then in the late 20s, as Edison got feebler, my dad would go to his house to do it.