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Wayne McNamara • 1946- 2006 Wayne was born on October 14, 1946, in Rolla, ND, the son of Robert and Marjorie (Modin) McNamara. He was reared and educated in Dunseith, Rugby and Minot. He enlisted into the US Navy when he was 17 years old and was stationed on the US Bon Homme Richard (CV31) aircraft carrier where he was a deck hand (yellow jacket) and worked with electronics during the Vietnam War. He was also stationed in San Diego, CA, where he met his future wife, Liz Pineda. He was discharged from the Navy in October of 1968. He then went to work for Nordskog Aircraft Galleys in San Diego. Wayne and Liz were married on November 12, 1968 in Los Angeles, California. They moved to Minot, ND in 1970, for a short time, where he was a truck driver. His family then moved to Wahpeton, where he attended and graduated from Wahpeton State School of Science. In 1972, they moved back to Minot where he started to work for KXMC 13 TV and Reiten Broadcasting as an engineer. Over the years he worked with the Reiten radio stations and with the Reiten Williston TV station. He worked for KXMC 13 until his time of death. Wayne was a member of the Minot Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 753. He developed the Minot VFW website, was on the VFW Honor Guard and was the Post Commander of the Minot post at the time of his death. He was also awarded all State Honors of the VFW at his home on Memorial Day of 2006. Wayne was also a member of the Order of The Cooties, which is a military honor society of the VFW. Wayne loved to fish, work on computers (he knew all the ins and outs), making home videos of the family, flying radio control planes that he built and taking family photographs. A comment that Wayne would always say was "I am not always right, but I am never wrong." He also pronounced himself the world's greatest fisherman. Wayne was also know as the Lost Leprechaun and when he would produce a video project he would have place the name produced by Lost Leprechaun Productions. Wayne is survived by his wife, Liz, Minot; sons, James Robert McNamara, Jamestown and Wayne Arthur McNamara, Jr. (Becca Natsues), Minot, ND; daughter, Shirley Rae Walter, (Scott Walter), Minot, ND; four grandchildren, Bryan Paul Braun Jr, Brittany Rose Braun, Breanna Ashley Braun and Scott Wayne Edwin Walter; brother, Robert James McNamara, Jr. (Faye), Hanapepe, Hawaii; sister, Shirley Rae McNamara, Minot; nieces, Melissa McNamara, Hawaii and Dee Schlak, Minot and nephew, Robert D. McNamara III, Hawaii. Funeral: Tuesday, June 6, 2006, at 1 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church, Minot, ND Burial: Rosehill Memorial Park, Minot, ND Visitation: Monday, June 5, 2006 from noon until 7 p.m. at the Thompson-Larson Funeral Home, Minot, ND Officiant: Rev. Galen Kauffman Music: Celtic music will be the prelude and postlude Honorary Bearers: The members of the Minot VFW Post and All of the people at KXMC Active Bearers: Larry McNamara, Jerry Toftland, Dean
McNamara, Edwin Walter, Loren Hendrick, Duane Aase, Bobby Turneau,
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