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Stewart
Willis: An
all around
nice guy
By Jan LaValley r Rappahannock News Staff Writer
When Steve Critzer was asked to comment on our choice for 1997 Citizen of the Year he knew who it was before he was told.
“Is it Stewart Willis? It is, isn’t it?” he asked. Yes, I answered, it is.
“He’d be my choice for man of the year,” Critzer said. "I know him and I know what he does in and for the community. He’s a leader. People listen to and
“ follow him.”
Willis, now mayor of the
of Washington, re-set- ^
in Rappahannock in the *
•ly ‘80s. His wife, Eve,
bora at Mt Green, out- '
le Washington, Va., and her family was from the county.
They met at Eisenhower’s Inaugural Ball in 1957 and have been married 38 years. When they met Willis was a cadet at West Point. As military families do, they moved around quite a bit in the earlier years of their marriage. Willis got his masters and later doctorate in physics while stationed near TVoy, N.Y. at Rensoeler Polytech
^s^tu^He wasa professor |
. 17 years. . " H " ; ; When Willis retired from West Point they came back to Rappahannock they set- A tied at Mount Prospect Farm in Washington, which they restored, and became
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