Donald Lloyd Wyman

Donald Lloyd Wyman born June 25, 1931 in Coldwater (now Goodyear) Az. to Lou and Erma Wyman. Don lived in various Arizona communities until the age of 14 when Don’s asthma forced the family to move to Vancouver, Washington. The first three years of school Don attended Young Community School, Young, AZ. where his mother taught high school English. For a number of years the family lived on Ash Street in Tempe where his mother taught school and his father was superintendent of a grapefruit cannery. Don best remembers those years of spending summer days at Tempe Town Beach and going to the nickel movies on Saturday at the old theatre on Mill Ave.

Don graduated from Springfield, OR High School in 1951, attended Oregon State University for two years and entered the United Stated Army in 1953. After his discharge, he resumed his studies at OSU and graduated with degrees in Business Management and Textile & Designs. He started his work career with Lipman Wolfe in Corvallis, OR, and eventually became regional menswear manager in Portland.

Throughout his lifetime, Don was an active softball player and played on many championship teams in the Northwest. He also participated in several National Tennis Tournaments, playing doubles. After moving to PebbleCreek in 1997, Don was one of the founders of the PebbleCreek Softball Association.

In 1954, Don and Jean Smith were married in Corvallis, OR and became the parents of four wonderful children. For several years, the Wyman Family lived in Anchorage, Alaska. Cecelia Ray and Don were married in 1977, and during that marriage became the grandparents to 10 great grandkids. In 2003, Don married his next door neighbor at PebbleCreek, Linda Vanderheyden. Seven beautiful great granddaughters and one great grandson, and two Vanderheyden grandchildren blessed their marriage. They became avid Arizona sports fans and cherished their Cardinal season tickets as well as going to the 2001 Diamondback World Series games, Coyotes games, and were especially big Suns rooters. Golf became Don’s number #1 hobby with gardening coming in #2.

Don’s parents and wife, Cecelia Ray, pre-deceased him. His survivors include wife Linda, the mother of his children Jean Stamper, son Michael (Barbara) Wyman, daughters Linda A. Wyman, Lisa (Rick) Hill, Carol Walker, step daughter Leigh Ann Vanderheyden, step son Douglas (Kelly) Vanderheyden, 12 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Memorial service and burial will be at a later date in Corvallis, In Don’s memory, memorials may be given to Hospice of the West and The Church at Litchfield Park.