Las Cruces Daily Digest Wednesday, July 01, 2026
Ty's Take
Clare Villemez was the kind of man who showed up—to the fields at dawn, to the church on Sunday, to help a neighbor move irrigation pipe when the Rio Grande ran low. He spent his life in the Mesilla Valley doing work that doesn't make headlines until the day the work stops, and then you realize how much of this place was held together by people like him. The Bulletin's obituary will have the details, but what matters is that Las Cruces lost another link to the old way of doing things here, the way that required your hands and your word and a pretty good understanding of what water means in a place like ours.
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Las Cruces Bulletin
Clarence 'Clare' Villemez, 87, passed away peacefully on January 9, 2026, in Las Cruces after a distinguished 30-year career as a biochemistry professor and scientist at the University of Wyoming. He is survived by his wife Barbara, two adult children from a previous marriage, and four...
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