Charles C. Mayor, 81, a World War II veteran who turned his Army skill of fixing teletypes into a career after the war, died Saturday, Feb. 16, of cirrhosis of the liver in his Williams Bay, Wis., home. Born in Chicago, Mr. Mayor grew up an only child on a farm in Delavan, Wis. He joined the Army in the early 1940s and maintained teletype equipment and coded and decoded messages in England and Paris. In 1947, he married Drucilla Davenport and moved to Oak Park, where he worked for the U.S. government fixing teletype equipment until he retired in the 1970s. His first wife died in the mid-1980s. In 1990 he married Marcella LeCompte Schmitt. In 1992, they moved to their summer home in Williams Bay, where he had a music room for his pipe organ and player piano. Mr. Mayor was a self-taught musician and a woodworker who built furniture “by just looking at a picture,” his wife said. He loved boats and steam trains and had a darkroom. “He had so many interests,” said his daughter Carol Aldous. Also surviving are two sons, Chuck and Dan; another daughter, Nita Gandy; and seven grandchildren. Services were held Tuesday.
