Charles Taylor Villemin |
| Posted 2026-04-11 by Pat R |
| Wickenburg Sun (Wickenburg, Arizona) Wednesday, November 10, 1999, p. A-18 Charles Taylor Villemin, 81, died in his sleep from cancer at his home of Congress, Ariz., on Nov. 5, 1999--just four days prior to his 82nd birthday. He was born in Pillager, Minn., on Nov. 9, 1917, the only son of Charles and Violet Villemin. He is a veteran of the U.S. Naval Air Corps in World War II in a patrol unit flying PBMs, the largest planes manufactured at that time. Their patrol area was along the eastern seaboard searching for enemy submarines from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to South America from their home base in Trinidad. He was awarded the Navy Silver Star for heroism for defusing a live depth-charge while in flight. At the end of the war, he was a gunnery instructor in Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Villemin logged in Northern California from 1945 to 1957; moved his family to the Los Angeles area in 1957, where he joined the Operating Engineers and traveled all of California, Nevada, and Hawaii in various jobs until his retirement in 1981 in Congress, Ariz. He was a member of the Mariner/Marlin Association, a group of retired Navy flyers and aircrewman, and hosted the 1997 reunion in Tucson with 451 members in attendance. Mr. Villemin was preceded in death by a daughter, Barbara Villemin of Seattle, Wash. Survivors include his wife Mary Villemin of Congress; son Douglas Villemin of Fresno, Calif.; daughter Roena Wadell of Carlin, Nev.;stepson Bruce Walkup of Sullivan, Ind.; stepdaughters Monya Stepnicka of Philomath, Ore., and Anne Rossovich of Danville, Calif.; 12 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. Memorial services for Mr. Villemin will be held Saturday (Nov. 13) at 2 p.m. at Frey's Funeral Home in Wickenburg. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in the name of Charles Villemin to Cancer Research or to the Peoples Valley- Yarnell Historical Society for the restoration of the little school house. Frey Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Wickenburg handled the arrangements. |
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