Wayne Daniel Currie Obituary Posted by Porter Loring Mortuary,
McCullough, Texas.
Wayne Daniel Currie, of San Antonio, Texas passed away on
December 27, 2024, in San Antonio. He was born in Mobile, Alabama, to
parents, Daniel Arch Currie and Edwina (Patterson) Currie. He was the
eldest of five children.
Wayne attended Catholic school in Mobile,
Alabama, graduating from McGill Institute in Mobile. His high school
classmate was Jimmy Buffett. Wayne attended Florida State University on a
track scholarship, and he earned Varsity Letters in Track and Field. He was
a member of the Air Force ROTC and Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. He was
awarded a B.S. in Business Administration in 1968.
Wayne served in the
United States Air Force from 1969 to 1990, retiring as a Lieutenant
Colonel. His assignments included Grand Forks AFB, ND; MacDill AFB, FL;
Nakhom Phanom Air Base, Thailand; Randolph AFB, TX; and Lindsey Air
Station, Germany. He was a human resources officer, missile combat crew
commander, and deputy base commander. He earned an M.B.A. from the
University of North Dakota in 1977 during his assignment as a missile
launch officer at Grand Forks AFB. He served as Director of Personnel for
the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, where he
was selected Senior Personnel Director of the Year for Air University for
four consecutive years. He contributed to winning the Cold War and was
present in Germany for the fall of the Berlin Wall. Wayne volunteered to
serve as the Lindsey AS (GE) Track and Field Coach and led his teams to 9
championships at 17th Air Force and three Air Force Europe team
championships. He served as the HQ Air Forces Europe delegation chief to
the Air Force track and field championships. He established an on-going 10K
run at the Air Force Institute of Technology.
After retiring from the
USAF, Wayne served as an employment services manager and a workers
compensation claims manager in Texas, Ohio, and Alabama for over 20 years.
From 1990 to 1994 in Bryan, Texas, he was a mediator and hearing examiner
for workers' compensation claims for the State of Texas. For 7 years he
managed the Dayton Customer Service Center for the Ohio Bureau of Workers
Compensation and was responsible for numerous special projects at the state
level. He directed Capps College, a medical assistants' career school, in
Montgomery, Alabama for two years. He supervised claims processing for
Business Insurance Group in Montgomery for 7 years, retiring from that
company in 2013 at his Full Retirement Age. He also chaired the Montgomery
Claims Association for several years.
Wayne married Karen Sue Williams
on June 20, 1981. Wayne and Karen retired to Hill Country Retreat in far
west San Antonio in 2013, where Wayne served as a member of the Nominating
Committee at the Hill Country Retreat HOA for 4 years and as the Chair for
3 years. He is known for his skill in recruiting volunteers to join
committees. He participated regularly in patriotic parades with the Hill
Country Retreat Veterans Group. He also participated in the HCR Community
Cleanup twice each year, collecting trash from the trails and roadside. He
put away the trash cans for his neighborhood (two streets) every Monday
morning for more than 7 years, a task he initiated because he wanted the
neighborhood to look nice and to help his neighbors. Wayne was very handy
around the house, doing cooking, shopping, cleaning, etc. He dearly loved
his two 14-year-old rescue cats (both sadly succumbed to cancer in the
summer of 2021). He loved to walk with his Fitbit and tried to get at least
10,000 steps per day, a goal he achieved until his foot problems in August
2020.
Wayne is survived by his loving wife of 43 years, Karen Currie;
siblings, Sandra Harris, Glen Currie, Gary Currie, and Mark Currie; 12
nephews and nieces and their children; and a host of other loving relatives
and friends.
