Wayne Laggette LeTellier

July 25, 1923 – December 25, 1987

Wayne L. LeTellier, 64, Santa Paula, California, died Christmas Day at home after a long illness.

Born in Perry, Oklahoma, July 25, 1923, he was the son of Prosper Emile and Rose Mae Ames LeTellier. While in his senior year at Perry high school, he and his family endured multiple tragic events when Wayne’s older brother, Grover, was killed in a traffic accident near Rosewell, New Mexico. His body was returned to Perry and the family gathered for Grover’s funeral and burial. Two of his other brothers, James and Paul, were returning to their respective positions in the military service, by Navy airplane, piloted by James, when their plane crashed and they were also killed. Wayne, responded by enlisting in the Navy. He was discharged on November 30, 1946, after serving overseas for 16 months aboard the USS Warrick, a cargo attack ship.

Following his discharge, he and Genevieve Dorothy Jackett were married in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 13, 1948. They made their home in Perry where he worked for a time as a butcher for M & W Food Store before assuming a different career as a printer/pressman for the Perry Daily Journal. While living in Perry they were blessed with the births of a son and a daughter.

The family moved moved to Santa Paula, California, in 1956. Wayne worked as a service mechanic with the FMC Corporation for 28 years and retired from the volunteer Santa Paula Fire Department.

Survivors include: his wife “Jenny”; daughter, Darlene Renee Fulmer of Santa Paula; son, Gary Wayne of Fort Myers, Florida; sisters, Faye Powell of Simi Valley, California, Mabel Butler of Perry, and Thelma Woods of Texas; brother, Amel of Santa Paula; and three grandchildren.

Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Robert A. Stetler Funeral Chapel, Santa Paula. Don Oliver, Bud Murphy, Bob Dyer and Frank Bullard, good friends of Mr. LeTellier, will officiate. Private inurnment will follow in Santa Paula Cemetery. Donations may be made to Santa Clara Valley Hospice.