Jonathon David Harms
10/21/1982 – 8/26/2021
Jonathon David Harms, 38, of Longville, passed away Thursday, August 26, 2021. A visitation will be
Wednesday, September 1, 2021 from 10:00am until time of service at Memorial Baptist Church in Longville.
His funeral service will be Wednesday, September 1, at 1:00pm at Memorial Baptist. Interment will be at
Memorial Cemetery. Revs. Mark Norwood, Jimmy Clark, and Brad Johnson will officiate.
A son, husband, father, brother and friend. He would help anyone that asked and sometimes they didn't even
know it. A protector and provider, always putting the needs of his family and friends before his own. Willing to
do whatever it took to keep them safe. Fearing very little, he would take life head on. Always the child at
heart, it seemed that he never stopped smiling. Trying to make the best of any bad situation was as easy as
putting on his shoes (he tried to make it look that easy, that is). I don't think he ever did something a little bit; it
was all or nothing and that's how he lived life. Always hard working and even harder at playing. His goal was
to be free.
Jon Harms started his military career in 2000 in Minocqua, Wisconsin, as a Crane Operator with a Combat
Engineer Company with the Reserves. In 2002 Jon started his military career in Active Duty in Fort
Polk. While stationed in Fort Polk, he was deployed twice, in 2003 and 2005, to Iraq. He had duty assignments
in Germany and Fort Bragg, while he finished his military career back at Fort Polk in 2009. In 2004, while at
Fort Polk, Jon took a Sapper Leader Course where he was awarded the Sapper Tab. In 2007 while stationed in
Germany, he went to Fort Bragg and went through Air Borne School. That is where he earned his Parachutist
Badge. In 2008, while stationed at Fort Bragg, Jon went through the Survival Escape Resist Evade Course
(SERE School).
Jonathon is survived by his wife of 17 years, Tracy Lynn Harms of Longville; five children, Hannah, Sarah,
Emma, Wyatt, and Justin; father Kenneth Harms & Donna of Eagle River, WI; mother Dorothy Olsen Harms of
Sun City, AZ; two siblings, Jacy Elrod & Shane of Spring, TX, and Tony Harms of Queen Creek, AZ; and a
host of nieces, nephews, family and friends.
Condolences can be made at heritagefuneralhomellc.com.