Charles Wayne McDaniel, age 82, of Brookings, died Sunday, March 28, 2010, at Brookview Manor in Brookings. Services will be 1:30 P.M. Thursday, April 1, 2010, at Bethel Baptist Church in Brookings, with interment and military rites at Greenwood Cemetery. Eidsness Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

Charles Wayne McDaniel was born June 13, 1927, at Spencer, South Dakota, to Rv Wayne and Bertha (Duxbury) McDaniel. He grew up on a farm near Spencer, and graduated from Spencer High School in 1945. He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps from October 1945 until December 1946, and then attended South Dakota State College where he graduated in 1950. He married Florence Claussen on March 21, 1949, at Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Wayne taught farm training classes to veterans at Canova, and then worked for the Soil Conservation Service in Milbank, Leola, and Wessington Springs. He changed careers and moved with his family to Chicago where he worked and attended National College of Chiropractic in Lombard. In 1970 the family returned to Brookings where Wayne was a doctor of chiropractic until retiring in 1988.

Wayne was a member of the American Legion, the South Dakota Chiropractic Association, Gideons International, and Kiwanis. He taught Sunday school, served as a Boy Scout leader, and visited Russia three times with Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance. He raised oyster mushrooms and smoked pheasants during hunting season. He enjoyed hunting, learning about other cultures, and spending time with his grandchildren. He was listed in Whos Who in Geology.

Survivors include his wife, Florence McDaniel, of Brookings; a son, James (Joyce) McDaniel, of Brookings; a daughter, Susan (Van) Kelley, of Brookings; seven grandchildren: Rachel (Matt) Franklin of Lexington, Kentucky, Elly Jo (Reese) Wagner of Tulare, South Dakota, Emily Kelley of Grass Valley, California, Jay Kelley (fianc, Jennifer Everman) of Brookings, JV (Elizabeth) Kelley of Amarillo, Texas, Judge Kelley of Brookings, and Adam (Chris) McDaniel of Manhattan, Kansas; seven great-grandchildren: Jadyn Kelley, Weston Wagner, Jocelyn Wagner, Avery Franklin, Audrey Franklin, James Denton JD McDaniel, and Jeffrey Everman; and two sisters-in-law: Virginia McDaniel and Noriko McDaniel. He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, David Wayne McDaniel; a daughter, Sharon E. Zoellner; and brothers, Everett and Gordon McDaniel.