Visitation will be held from 4:00pm until 7:00pm, Friday, February 14, 2020, at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl. Rosary services will follow at 7:00pm in the funeral home chapel. Mass of Christian Burial services are 2:00pm, Saturday, February 15, 2020, at St. Jude Catholic Church in Pearl. The family will receive friends one hour prior to services at the church.
Mr. Villa was born April 12, 1955, in Tayabas City, Philippines, a son of the late Hilario Enriques Villa, Sr. and Teofila Abrigo Villa. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Sacred Heart College and a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering from the Araneta Foundation University in the Philippines. He married his sweetheart, Melody Ansay Resurreccion, on November 24, 1979.
Mr. Villa worked at the University of Mississippi Medical Center for 25 years and retired in 2014. He loved God and his family. He enjoyed exercising, gardening, woodworking, and bargain hunting. He never met a stranger and was known as the "Candy Man" because he always had a piece of candy to offer anyone who he met.
Survivors include his wife of 40 years, Melody Villa; daughters, Mara Villa Polk, and Christina Villa; son, Mikail Villa; son-in-law, Matthew Polk; daughter-in-law, Angel Villa; grandchildren, Audrey, Michael Patrick, and James Hilario; siblings, Alita (Gregorio) Durante, Heidi Villa, Juliet Lim, Gerardo (Cynthia) Villa, and Teofila Madonna Baluyot; and brother-in-law, sisters-in-law, and many nephews and nieces around the world.
