Thomas F. Willet

WILLET, ALLEN, DEROSSETT

Posted By: Skipton
Date: 12/20/2011 at 20:08:51

Thomas F. Willet, 45, of Mesa, Ariz. formerly of Winfield and Milan, Ill. died Friday, November 28, 1969, at Veterans Hospital, Tucson, Ariz. following an extended illness.

Funeral services were Tuesday at Wheelan Funeral Home, Rock Island. Burial in National Cemetery, Rock Island Arsenal, Ill.

Mr Willet was born October 19, 1924 in Winfield, a son of Frank and Lucy Allen Willet. He was graduated from Winfield High School and Coyne Electrical Engineering School, Chicago.

He was an Army Air Force Veteran of World War II.

He was employed as a technician with various electrical companies in the area.

He was a Milan resident from 1944 to 1962, moving to California at that time. He had been a Mesa resident since 1965.

He married Wanda DeRossett, January 16, 1968 in Mesa.

He was a member of the Velda Rose Methodist Church in Mesa.

Surviving are the widow, his mother in Milan, six step-daughters and two brothers, Leroy of Rural Muscatine and Joe of Milan.

He was preceded in death by his father and a brother.