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Donald Guy Warman, 86

Donald Guy Warman passed away peacefully on April 27, 2017, at age 86.

Born in Chicago, Don grew up in Boone, North Carolina. He was a descendent of a long line of Adventist preachers. Donald had a lifelong love of learning, laughter, stories, wordplay, family and above all his beloved wife, Sandra Eleanor Warman (nee Miller), whose passing November 17th, 2016, left a great void in his life.

He served in the US Army and was the Park Historian at Homestead National Monument near Beatrice, NE.

His energetic zest for education was most eloquently expressed though his long career as a History Professor from 1961 through 2003 at Dana College in Blair, Nebraska. He is remembered for the vividness of his lectures, his insistence on critical thinking, and his joyous sense of humor. History was his passion, but “nothing human was alien to him,” and he also taught Humanities, Geography, Anthropology, Political Science, Computer Science (as early as the 1970s) and many other subjects, memorably including “Ways of Growth.”

He was predeceased by his son, Christopher (Karyn), in 2011 and daughter, Marian (Victor) Doicin, in 2001. He is survived by sons, Winston (Rachel) and Jonathan (Gacin), as well as grandson, Zachariah (Kati), and granddaughters, Alexis Wirth (Karl) and Lizabeth Doicin.

There will be a celebration of life gathering at the Gardner Hawks facility on the Dana College campus Saturday, May 27, 2017, from 1 to 4 p.m.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~