Obituaries : * John Henry Wayland Jr.; Community Leader
John Henry Wayland Jr., a longtime community leader and businessman in east Ventura County, died Sept. 7 in a Reno hospital after complications from heart-bypass surgery. He was 67.
Wayland, who was born Nov. 18, 1927, in Plainview, Tex., had lived in the Thousand Oaks and Westlake Village area for 27 years before moving in 1994 to a home in Indian Wells in Riverside County.
Wayland owned the Thousand Oaks Racquet Club for 10 years before selling it in 1982.
He was also involved in real estate development, including the New Racquet Club Villas, the Field House athletic facility and Los Robles Estates office complex, all in Thousand Oaks, and Country Club Estates in North Ranch in Westlake Village.
He had been a director of The First State Bank of the Oaks in Thousand Oaks from its founding in 1980 until it was bought by another bank in 1993. He was also a founding director of the North Ranch Country Club. Wayland contributed to the Alliance for the Arts, becoming a member of the Founders Circle at the Probst Performing Arts Center in Thousand Oaks.
He is survived by his wife, Jutta Wayland of Indian Wells; two daughters, Laura Wayland of Ithaca, N.Y., and Petra Wayland of Reno; a son, John Henry Wayland III of Danville, and a grandson.
Memorial donations may be made to the university founded by Wayland’s grandfather, Wayland Baptist University, Office of Development, Plainview, TX 79072.
Private interment will be in Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village.
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