Elmer Joseph Jamnik Age 92, passed away on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at the Joliet Area Hospice Home. Elmer was born in Bradley, Illinois on September 28, 1925 to the late Anna and Joseph Jamnik. Upon graduating from high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1943. He served in the South Pacific as a Pharmacist's Mate Second Class, attached to a Marine Seabee Unit. In 1946, he entered Eastern Illinois University majoring in Accounting. He graduated in 1950 and taught for four years in the business department at Charleston High School. He and his wife Nancy, moved to Joliet in 1954 for teaching positions in the Joliet Twp. High School and Junior College. Elmer was one of the first Distributive Education Coordinators in the State of Illinois. Many will remember him as the Athletic Business Manager for District 204 and Joliet Junior College. He was a mentor to many students with many of the Accounting majors becoming very successful business persons. He was a member of Phi Sigma Epsilon, social fraternity and Delta Pi Epsilon, a graduate Business Education fraternity. When Joliet West opened, he became the Business Education Department Chairman, a position he retained until he was named a Counselor. He retired in 1986. He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers Louis (Carol) Jamnik and Tony (Beverly) Jamnik; one nephew, John Jamnik. He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Nancy Jamnik; three children, Susan (Michael) Bahr, William (Allison) Jamnik and Steven (Amy) Jamnik; seven grandchildren, Julie Bahr (Ryan) Hertel, Greg Bahr, Patrick (Emily) Jamnik, Natalie Jamnik, Colleen Jamnik; Jeremy Jamnik and Jameison Jamnik; one great-granddaughter, Abigale Hertel. A Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus at 10:00 a.m. Family and friends are asked to begin gathering in the church foyer beginning at 9:00 a.m. until mass time. Inurnment and military honors will follow at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood at 12:00 noon. Memorials can be made in his name to Joliet Area Hospice, Cathedral of St. Raymond Building Fund or the Chicago Veterans Honor Flight Program.