Vernon Harry Charlet

KEWANEE - Vernon Harry Charlet, 84, of rural Kewanee, died at 5:07 a.m., Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at the Kewanee Care Home.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, April 23 at the Church of Peace in rural Kewanee. Rev. Dan Craig will officiate. Visitation will be held from 9:00 a.m. until the time of the service  at the church. Burial will be in Garden of Peace Cemetery where military rites will be accorded by the Kewanee Veterans Council. Memorials may be directed to the Church of Peace or the Kewanee Senior Citizen’s Center. Rux Funeral Home in Kewanee is in charge of arrangements.

He was born June 28, 1931 in Kewanee, the son of Harry and Hazel (Kempin) Charlet. He married Marilyn Diane Lambert on November 10, 1957 at the Presbyterian Church in Kewanee. She survives, as does a daughter, Diana (Jim) Galloway of Kewanee, two sons, Kevin (Dawn) Charlet of Kewanee and Neil (Traci) Charlet of Schaumburg, IL, six grandchildren, Hilary and Austin Charlet, Madison and Dylan Galloway and Jacob and Axel Charlet, two step-grandchildren, Lisa Kane and Jenny Pelton, four step-great grandchildren, Isabella, Addyson, Olivia and Alex, a brother Marvin (Lola) Charlet of Kewanee, a sister, Eileen (Robert) Prusator of Moline and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents and an uncle, Clarence.

Vern was a 1949 graduate of Wethersfield High School. He served his country from 1951 to 1956 in the Navy aboard the USS Howard Gilmore. He was a grain and dairy farmer having been in a farming partnership with his father and Uncle Clarence and then later with his brother, Marvin and son, Kevin. He was a member of the Church of Peace where he had been president of the church council for two terms and  was a member of the Church of Peace Brotherhood. He was a president and director of the Farmer’s Co-Op Elevator  a past member of the Kewanee Moose Lodge and Odd fellows Lodge. He enjoyed playing cards and going for coffee.

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