Charles W. Wayman, Emporia
Charles William Wayman, longtime banker at Emporia State Bank, died Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007, at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor. He was 90.
Services will be announced by the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home.
The memorial service for Charles William Wayman will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the First United Methodist Church. Mr. Wayman was cremated. A private family inurnment will be at Memorial Lawn Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Emporia Community Foundation-Fremont Park Bandstand Fund, P.O. Box 1337, Emporia, KS 66801.
Mr. Wayman died Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007, at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor. He was 90.
He served as president of Emporia State Bank and Trust Company (now ESB Financial) from 1954 until he retired in 1985. At the present time he was chairman emeritis of ESB Financial. During Mr. Wayman’s presidency, ESB Financial celebrated its 90th birthday with a gift to the city of Emporia to restore Fremont Park Bandstand to its original structure. On ESB’s 100th birthday, the Wayman family and ESB Financial donated the eagle exhibit to the David Traylor Zoo of Emporia.
Mr. Wayman served in the U.S. Army for five years. During World War II, he was Master Sergeant in the Third Army in Europe under Gen. George Patton.
The son of Harry and Maude Moore Wayman, he was born Dec. 30, 1916, in Emporia. He grew up in Emporia and attended public schools. He graduated from Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia with a degree in business administration. He was a postgraduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Banking.
He married Elva Lee James on Sept. 4, 1943. She survives.
Mr. Wayman was a member of the First United Methodist Church. He also was a member of the Emporia Noon Lions Club, Emporia Area Chamber of Commerce, the Emporia Country Club and trustee emeriti of Emporia State University Foundation and the Emporia State University President’s Club. He formerly served as president of the Lions Club, Junior Chamber of Commerce and Emporia Investors. Mr. Wayman also served on the boards of the Kansas development Credit Corporation, Small Business Administration, Kansas Bankers Association, First United Methodist Church, Emporia Country Club, Hetlinger Foundation, Boy Scout Troop 152 and the Cancer Society.
He was a charter member of the Committee of 50, drive chairman and president of the United Way of the Flint Hills, the Emporia Gazette Man of the Week in 1965 and Emporia Christmas Parade Marshall in 1991. He and his wife were honored by the Jayhawk Area Council Sojadi District as Distinguished Citizens in 2003.
He also is survived by one daughter, Karen Wayman Sommers of Emporia; two sons, James Charles Wayman and William Harry Wayman, both of Emporia; four grandsons, Stanley “Trey” Oliver Sommers III, Andrew Charles Wayman and Matthew Logan Wayman, all of Emporia, and Christopher Wayman Sommers, formerly of Emporia and now, of Telluride, Colo.; and three great-grandchildren. Two brothers, Harold Wayman and Maurice Wayman, died earlier.