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Daggett -- Charles Brattain Winfred"Wynn" Daggett, 82 years old, passed away on Friday evening, November 12, 1999 at Albuquerque Manor, where he had been a resident for two years. Wynn was born on April 7, 1917 in Chama, New Mexico as the only son of Golda Dell Vermillion Daggett and Charles Albert"Deet" Daggett. He was raised on the Daggett Ranch located in the beautiful Canones Creek valley just south of Chama, where he also attended grammar school in a single-room schoolhouse. As a boy he was an avid fisherman, hunter and trapper, and between the ages of 8 and 16 he was considered the"Daniel Boone" of the Brazos-Chavez-Canones Creek area. He attended high school at El Rito Normal School, El Rito, NM, where he was a standout on the football team. In 1935, soon after high school graduation, he worked as a mountain guide for patrons of the well-known Ghost Ranch, then owned by Arthur Pack. Later, he worked for the U.S. Geological Survey performing triangulation surveys in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado. In 1937, Wynn moved to San Diego, CA with his maternal grandparents, where he attended San Diego State College, and later worked for Solar Aircraft. While in San Diego, Wynn met Dolores Maxine Nelson, and they were wed in 1943. Also in that years, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Airforce, where he completed bomber pilot training and served until 1946. He then returned to New Mexico and was hired by the New Mexico Game & Fish Department, where he worked at the Pecos Fish Hatchery until accepting a supervisory position at the Zia Company in Los Alamos, NM. In 1952, the family moved to Idaho Falls, Idaho, where he and his wife worked at the Reactor Testing Station. In 1954, he accepted an overseas position in Venezuela, SA, where he worked for Blaw Knox de Venezuela during the construction of a chemical processing plant. After the plant was built, he accepted a position with"Creole", a Venezuelan subsidiary of Standard Oil Company. He and the family returned to the states in late 1959 and settled in the Espanola Valley. He worked for the University of California in Los Alamos until he retired in 1981. Later, in 1987, he traveled to the Middle East to apply his expertise to the construction of several U.S. government facilities in Kuwait. Wynn was an avid fisherman and known as one the best in New Mexico. In particular, his fly fishing ability was well known. This is exemplified by his State Record"native" trout, which he caught as a boy in the Brazos Box, or by the article published about his fishing skills in a well-known national magazine in the early 1950's. He spent the twilight years of his life as a very physically fit man doing the things he loved: fishing, playing tennis, playing golf, hiking, ballroom dancing, skiing, gardening, and daily spa workouts. He continued these activities until health conditions ceased them about five years ago. He had many interests and he loved to play as hard as he worked. Wynn was a very gregarious person who knew no strangers. He truly loved life! He is survived by his daughter, Kathy Leeann Brock; son, Kevin Charles Daggett; daughter-in-law, Lauren Calvin Daggett; grandson, Colton Charles Calvin Daggett, all of Albuquerque; sisters, Mary Emmeline Kessel, Sonora, CA, Johnna Mae Weaver, Espanola, NM; three nephews and one niece. The family will announce a celebration of Wynn's life at a later date. His remains will be put to rest in the Canones Creek area per his wishes.
        Published on: Sun November 21, 1999