Wayne David McLellan

He was preceded in death by his wife, Edna, and is survived by his son Scott (Susan) of Kempton, PA, a daughter Dana Saxerud (Ted) of Arlington, VA and three grandsons, Zachary Scott, Andrew Robert and Alexander Leif.

Born in Duluth, MN in 1925, his home was in Superior, WI until June 1943 when he enlisted in the U.S. Army. His WWII service was in Europe, where he landed in Normandy via Utah Beach in 1944 and continued serving through the Campaigns of Northern France and Central Europe, earning him several military honors and three battle stars. In March 2009 the French Government awarded Wayne the highest honor they give to foreign civilians: “The French Legion D’Honneur” and also received the “Normandy Medal of the Jubilee of Liberty” which commemorated the Normandy landings of 1944. Wayne’s 32-year federal civil service career began in 1946 and took him first to the Pentagon, then Wiesbaden Germany, Baltimore Maryland, and then Andrews Air Force Base.

He and Edna, his wife of 58 years, settled in Harwood, Maryland where they raised a family and Wayne was a gentleman-farmer. After he retired as a GS-14, Wayne and Edna made their home in Naples, Florida. He and Edna enjoyed traveling throughout the U.S. and Canada in their RV and he restored a 1941 Culver Cadet single engine wooden aircraft. After Edna passed away, he moved to Allentown in 2010 to be closer to family.

His remains will be placed beside his wife’s in Arlington National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Wayne’s memory to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) (www.humanesociety.org) or the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum (www.maam.org) where his restored aircraft is on display.