Former Blair resident Wayne W. Jarman, 85, of Wahoo, died Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003, at the Arbor Manor Living Center in Fremont.

Funeral services were Monday, Nov. 3, at Moser Memorial Chapel in Fremont. Interment was in the Sunrise Cemetery in Wahoo with full military honors conducted by the Wahoo American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts.

Wayne W. Jarman was born Dec. 5, 1917, in Nowlin, S.D., to Everette and Jessie (Martin) Jarman. He was raised at Timber Lake, S.D., and graduated from high school at Timber lake in 1935. He then attended Mankato Business College in Minnesota for two years.

On June 29, 1939, he married Anna Kay Watts at Hiawatha, Kan. After their marriage, the couple lived in Council Bluffs, Iowa, until 1951; then resided in South Dakota; Cedar Bluffs; Dodge City and Wichita, Kan., before moving to Blair in 1975, and finally to Wahoo in 1986.

Mr. Jarman served in the U.S. Army Air force during World War II. He served from Nov. 14, 1940 until Sept. 18, 1945, in the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater.

He was later employed as a petroleum tank truck driver for the Farmers Union Co-op.

Mr. Jarman was a member of the Wahoo American Legion Post No. 82 and a former member of the Cedar Bluffs American Legion Post. He was a member of the Wahoo Masonic Ledge 59 AF & AM, and was a former member of the Fremont Masonic Lodge No. 15.

He is survived by his wife, Anna; brother, Wesely Jarman of Huron, S.D.; sisters and brother-in-law, Darlene and John Schaffer of Hampton, Minn., Isla Hoffman of New Ulm, Minn., and Eunice "Judy" Sperlich of Mitchell, S.D.; daughter-in-law, Lucille Jarman of Cedar bluffs; brother-in-law, Floyd Spilde of Aberdeen, S.D.; two grandchildren and their families; and seven great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a son, Len Jarman; one brother, Merideth Jarman, and a sister, Irene Spilde.

Moser Memorial Chapel in Fremont was in charge of arrangements.