Faye Angel
also known as Chuck's godmother
Faye Angel was Chuck’s godmother. She and her husband Ted Angel ran a picture-framing business out of their Marietta house — their basement was filled with thousands of picture frames, stacked and sorted and waiting for customers’ orders. The Angel home was one of the small-town family-friend houses Chuck’s childhood ran through, alongside Aunt Betty and Uncle Norm Wolfe’s house at 108 Hillcrest Drive.
Hosting young Terrie on her college visits
The Angels’ role in the family started before Chuck was born. Faye hosted Terrie Lee Wildermuth on her visits to Charlie during their college years — the late 1960s through the early 1970s, when Charlie was a Marietta College senior and then a Vietnam-tour-and-after, and Terrie was a University of Maryland student traveling out to Marietta to see him. The detail is visible in the Vietnam letters and other pre-marriage Charlie-and-Terrie correspondence: Faye and Ted Angel’s house was a trusted Marietta-side hosting household for Charlie’s then-girlfriend when she was in town. A young woman from a Maryland college visiting her boyfriend in his hometown needed somewhere to stay; the Angel home was where she stayed.
That role — hosting Terrie before she was a wife or mother — is one piece of why Faye became Chuck’s godmother when Chuck was born in 1979.
The sick-day caregiver
Faye Angel and Aunt Betty Wolfe were the two sick-day caregivers of Chuck’s childhood. When Chuck had to stay home from school, he was often at Faye and Ted’s house or at the Wolfes’ on Hillcrest. The two households together formed the small-town extended-family-care network around him.
The Angel home for a sick child meant: the picture-framing business going on around him, the basement full of frames, Ted working in his shop, Faye watching after him, the soup or the tea or the day-on-the-couch that sick days always meant. Whatever the specific texture of those days, Faye Angel was the woman whose hands Chuck’s childhood passed through on his bad-health mornings, the same way she had hosted his mother on her courtship visits a decade before.
The genealogical connection — through Becky and the Davis line
The earlier framing on this page treated Faye as “a close family friend” with an open question about whether her family connected to any documented family lines. The c. 1992 Davis-Angel family portrait surfaced in this archive in 2026 closes that question concretely:
Faye and Ted Angel had a daughter, Rebecca “Becky” Lynne (Angel) Davis, who married William Harvey Davis Sr. on 16 August 1963 in Washington Township, Monroe County, Ohio — Chuck’s great-uncle, the youngest brother of Chuck’s grandmother Dorothy Davis Wildermuth.
Through Becky’s marriage, the Angel and Davis families are in-laws. The chain runs:
Chuck’s grandmother Dorothy Davis Wildermuth → her youngest brother William Harvey Davis Sr. → Bill Sr.’s wife Becky Angel Davis → Becky’s mother Faye Angel → Chuck’s godmother.
Faye being Chuck’s godmother is therefore not random closeness — it is the natural pick of a mother-in-law-of-the-grandmother’s-brother to be the spiritual sponsor at the next-generation’s baptism. The picture-framing-house childcare and the holiday-table closeness of the Angel home to Chuck’s family are the lived expressions of a family-by-marriage relationship that the structured genealogical record had not yet picked up.
