Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
WESTERLY MAN DIES SUDDENLY Y
Charles w. Willard Expires Thursday Morning Improve n1ents at Wilcox Park-Seedling Daha Named for Mrs Otis P Chapnan-V Visiting Nurse Reengaged.

political office, preferring to serve his
 town and state as private citizen For the past sixteen years, MT. Willard has
 been treasurer of the American Fish cries association, whose large member ship includes fish scientists and cul- turists from all sections of the United States and Europe sssr-5
 MT. Willard was for several years
 a director in the Mantle National bank
 and in the Mechanics Savings bank ana
 was charter member of the Westerly
 Business Mems association. He was
 prominent in the organ.zation and was
 one of the first derectors of the West
 erly Railway and Lighting company.
 He practically organized the Atlantic
 Tuna club. with headquarters at Block
 Island, and was president of that club
 since it's formation. He was also a
 member of the Westerly Colonial club
 and Westerly Board of Trade.
 MT. Willard was prominent Ma
 son, having. been past master or Franklin lodge, F. and A. M, in 1S96-
 1897, member of Palmer chapter, R. A.
 M., past eminent commander of Narra- =
 gansett commandery. K. T., and a
 member of Palestine Temple, Nobles of
 the Mystic Shrine @{e He was also a
 member of Bowen lodge. Knights5s of Pythias.
 His ancestry on the paternal side goes back to Simon Willard, who land ed at Salem, Mass. in 1894, and from whom he is a descendant in the sev- enth generation. On the maternal side he descends in the elghth. genera : tion from Governor Thomas Wells, who was born in England in 15S0, land who landed at Salem in 1929; and also from the Griswold family one of theoldest and most numerous in Connecticut. MT. Willard and Miss Minnie Porter, daughter of James IT, Porter were married November 25 1880, and he is T Miss Grace Porter Willard He also leaves a brother and two sisters in Hartford, William A Willard, and Miss Nellie B. Willard and Mrs: Grace Wells. s-@+ MT. Willard supervised large orange
 groves in Weir, Florida, and it has been his custom for years, with Mrs. Willard, and their daughter, to spend the winters in the south
 The trustees of Wilcox park have au- thorized important improvements in the park and the work is going for ward under the direction of Superin- tendent Charles F. Coon. The open brook that runs through the center of the park. emptying into the Pawcatuck has gradually become q menace to%the public health by reason or sewage con nections in the Grove avenue section. This brook which isa about three feet wide, with side bank about five feet ! high. is to he walled for it's entire length through the park Then bridged with cement concrete and covered over with loam, thus giving an unbrolzen surface in the entire park. The small pond on the north end of the park and the other near the south section, and which have been the receptacles of filth and mosquito breeding spots, will be filled in and the surface area increas- ed. It is planned to convert the site
 of the pond at. the. north end into a -children's play ground, as it is 3 heavi- l lv shaded place and grass will not flourish there. Swings and sand box