- Date Of Birth: May 26, 1945
- Date Of Death: November 25, 2019
- State: Maryland
On Monday, November 25, 2019, Pantaleon Paulino Villones Jr. of Severn, Maryland passed away peacefully with his loving family by his side. Jun, as he was known by all, was born on May 26, 1945 to the late Purificacion Mendoza Paulino and Pantaleon Alputan Villones in Talavera, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
After graduating at the top of his class and attaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture from the University of Santo Tomas, Jun pursued an opportunity of a lifetime to immigrate to the United States. In 1967, he started work at an architecture firm in Washington, D.C. Early in his career, he worked for several architectural firms throughout the Baltimore Washington area before opening his own interior design firm, Jun Villones Design, in 1984. His iconic work is visible in several places in and around Maryland, including the Baltimore Washington International Airport, the Maryland Science Center, and the Baltimore Mayor’s Office of Cable and Communications.
Shortly after immigrating to the U.S., Jun met and married the love of his life, Glenda Sue Villones. Their abiding love resulted in close to fifty years of marriage. Aside from his wife Sue, Jun is survived by his son Keith Villones, daughter Shaunda Villones, her husband Kevin Buttry, and their daughter Penelope Buttry. Jun is also lovingly remembered by his sister Wilhelmina Ramos and brother Lawrence Paulino along with numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and other dear friends.
Jun was also an avid philanthropist. He supported the higher education pursuits of up and coming architects in Nueva Ecija, Philippines by establishing a scholarship program that directly supported the education of countless students. Additionally, he often made trips back to the Philippines to deliver clothes, books and other necessities to children’s orphanages in impoverished areas around his hometown of Talavera. The culmination of his work was donating family land in Talavera to 16 deserving families to build homes on and to erect the town’s first playground in honor of his mother.
