Henry F. Villaume

1931 - 2016

INTERVALE, N.H. -- Henry F Villaume, 85, of Intervale, died on July 17, 2016.

He was born February 25, 1931 to Frederick H and Marie (Peters) Villaume, with his twin sister, Elizabeth Ann, the first set of fraternal twins born at the Staten Island General Hospital. He grew up in West Nyack, New York, attending local schools. He was active in the Boy Scouts as a youth, to the level of Eagle Scout. At Nyack High School, Mr. Villaume earned Varsity letters in Football and in Field & Track, was elected to the National Honor Society and, as the red-haired, 6' tall football team captain, dated the red-haired, 6' tall, drum majorette.

While attending Columbia College, Mr. Villaume became a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, serving as an officer and, ultimately, President. He was also Chief Proctor of John Jay Hall. During this time, he talked a resident, literally, off the ledge. The Columbia crew team made him team manager to get him out of the shell, because he kept breaking oars. Mr. Villaume won the Columbia Lion for Outstanding Student his senior year. A 1954 graduate of Columbia College's School of Engineering, Mr. Villaume entered the US Navy as a Lieutenant JG to complete his ROTC service requirement, serving primarily in the North Atlantic on the USS Adroit and USS Hummingbird.

Before shipping off, Mr. Villaume married his lifelong love, Susette Bryant Adams.

Mr. Villaume enjoyed a long career as a mechanical engineer with a special interest in thermal management. After the Navy, he worked at NH Ball Bearing and Miniature Precision Ball Bearing in Peterborough; Air Products & Chemicals in Allentown, Pennsylvania; Howell Laboratories in Bridgton, Maine, and was self-employed as a business consultant for many years. His Sunday Morning Roundtables for local businesses and White Mountain Roundtables seminars were well attended and covered many business and technology topics. His Villaume Associates LLC presented thermal management seminars, designed products and solved thermal management issues for other companies, and was involved in many current technologies to help keep hot items cool. His crowning professional achievement, perhaps, is the heat sinks he designed, had manufactured, and delivered to NASA, who installed them at the International Space Station Ground Support facility in Houston. Mr. Villaume held many patents in his own right and in conjunction with his colleagues and various employers over the years.

Mr. Villaume and his family moved to Intervale, New Hampshire in August, 1969. He was active on the Town of Bartlett's Zoning and Planning Boards, provided advice to the town's School Board, and was actively involved in the North Conway Water Precinct in recent years.

He was well known and appreciated for his sense of humor, his intelligent wit, his business acumen, and his incisive political commentary.

Mr. Villaume leaves his wife of 62 years, Susette; his twin sister, Lizzie Villaume, of Boothbay, Maine; his son, Rick and daughter-in-law, Debra, of Peterborough; his daughter, Betsy and son-in-law Ken MacLeod, of Belmont, Massachusetts; his son, Peter and daughter-in-law, Laura, of Bartlett, New Hampshire and her family; his grandson, Patrick, of Easton, Pennsylvania; his nephew, David Walker and David's family, Kate, Ellie, Marc, and Jake; his niece, Katherine Walker, of Los Angeles, California; and many friends.

Visiting hours will be Thursday July 21, 2016 at Furber and White Funeral Home from noon to 2 p.m.; with services following at Christ Church Episcopal, N. Conway, N.H. at 3 p.m. Interment will be in Hancock, N.H., at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to FIRST, a national non-profit organization For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology; 200 Bedford Street, Manchester, N.H. 03101; www.firstinspires.org.

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