Robert Luis Villafana
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A Funeral Mass will be held on September 21, 2023 at 11:00 AM at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Kilmarnock, Virginia.
Robert attended Mount St. Agnes Academy.
He was employed at Ethan Allen.
Robert served in the US Army.
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Mitch Miller
September 20, 2023
As a child, Tintle Rd in Butler was a wonderful place to grow up. It was a paradise for a child. A beautiful wooded street surrounded by thousands of acres of woods that you could get lost in for hours on end.
It was a time when a neighborhood was a magic safe place that consisted of neighbors who cared for and looked out for each other. And for each other's kids. As a kid, you knew all of your neighbors and they knew you. There were chilly Halloween nights, 4th of July picnics, and neighborhood gatherings. Christmas lights, snow-filled days and nights, playing hide and seek on a summer evening while stopping to catch a lightning bug. But also, as a kid, if you did something wrong, your parents knew it by the time you hit the front door. Paradise isn't always perfect, but this was close.
Mr and Mrs Villafana and the girls lived in the house on the corner of Tintle Rd and Stony Hill Crt. You couldn't go anywhere down that road, from where we lived without passing their home. The Villafanas were one of the wonderful families that made our street a little slice of paradise. Mr Vilafana (AKA Luis, AKA Robert) would always wave and smile or take the time to talk to me. And though I was just a boy, and it may have just been a boy's perspective, I do believe he inspired my father at one point, to grow a mustache.
Luis was also the guy who got my parents a great deal on the Ethen Allen dining room furniture that adorned our formal dining room. A shrine-like room that we were only allowed to go into on holidays. Sitting at that Ethan Allen table was an honor reserved for Thanksgiving, Easter, and Christmas. Perhaps Mother's Day and Father's Day, but the others were certainly the big three.
Luis and Georgine also gave me my first big paying job... babysitting the girls, Christina and Daniel. Lovely girls, that were always asleep by the time I got there. In truth, it was me, the family dog, TV, and snacks. The easiest money I ever made.
A kind, gentle, caring man with a wonderful sense of humor and a smile. A good family friend. That is the way I knew him and will always remember Luis. And as with all good people, this world was better because he was in it and will be less so with his passing.
Hooroo, old neighbor, old friend. Thank you for watching over me, and taking the time for me when I was a child. Thank you for helping to make our neighborhood a special place. It was also better because you were in it.
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