It must have seemed a world apart from Grimes County Texas, where he was born and grew up.
Mr. Blount was born March 26, 1920, to Robert Blount, a farmer, and Lillia Burns Blount, a homemaker. The 1930 Census identified Waymon Boney, then 10, and three older siblings as farm helpers. The Great Depression left 16 percent or more of the county's residents unemployed or doing government relief work by 1937.
Mr. Blount left the university to enlist in the Navy on Nov. 8, 1940. He was a seaman first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
At least two brothers also served in World War II -- Talmadge in the U.S. Army Air Corps and Rhea in the Navy. They survived.
There is a cenotaph for Waymon at Evergreen Cemetery in Grimes County. His parents are buried there.
Sources: Austin Daily Texan; Austin City Directory for 1940; Census; Navy muster roll; grave marker and cenotaph; Texas State Historical Society. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
Contributor: USS Arizona Mall Memorial at University of Arizona (50022871)
It must have seemed a world apart from Grimes County Texas, where he was born and grew up.
Mr. Blount was born March 26, 1920, to Robert Blount, a farmer, and Lillia Burns Blount, a homemaker. The 1930 Census identified Waymon Boney, then 10, and three older siblings as farm helpers. The Great Depression left 16 percent or more of the county's residents unemployed or doing government relief work by 1937.
Mr. Blount left the university to enlist in the Navy on Nov. 8, 1940. He was a seaman first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
At least two brothers also served in World War II -- Talmadge in the U.S. Army Air Corps and Rhea in the Navy. They survived.
There is a cenotaph for Waymon at Evergreen Cemetery in Grimes County. His parents are buried there.
Sources: Austin Daily Texan; Austin City Directory for 1940; Census; Navy muster roll; grave marker and cenotaph; Texas State Historical Society. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
Contributor: USS Arizona Mall Memorial at University of Arizona (50022871)
Inscription
USS Arizona BB39
Gravesite Details
This is a memorial headstone as he is entombed in the hull of the USS Arizona with his shipmates. His body was never recovered.
info provided by Tom Burgdorf
Family Members
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Lavada Bettie Blount
1900–1903
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Velma Francis Blount Goerner Davis
1902–1959
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Oma Rosa Blount Embrey
1904–1974
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Oley Hall Blount
1907–1995
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Zefa Jewell Blount Fisher
1910–2006
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Sanford Orear Blount
1914–2001
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Talmadge Route Blount
1917–2004
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Wayman Boney Blount
1920–1941
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S1 Wayman Boney Blount
1920–1941
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Rhea Herschuell Blount
1922–2013
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