Van W. Harman, service station operator and former deputy municipal court bailiff and deputy sheriff was found dead Monday at his home at 537 Mynster, where he lived alone. Harman fully dressed, was found lying on a davenport. Coroner Henry Meyer said indications were that Harman had been dead since 10 or 11 p.m. Sunday. "It looks as if he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage," Coroner Meyer said. A doctor was to examine the body to determine cause of death.

Frank Hempel, 2623 Avenue L, employee of the service station and Don Wilson of Weston, taxicab driver, found the body. "When he failed to show up at the station this morning I called his home several times," Hempel said. "When I got no answer I and Wilson, a customer at the station, went to the home to see if anything was wrong."

Harman, a resident of Pottawattamie County since 1918, formerly operated a grocery store before entering politics. He served for six years as deputy bailiff of the municipal court, resigning to become chief deputy under Sheriff Riley C. Nelsen. After leaving the sheriffs office, he was district sales representative for an oil company. In 1946, he purchased the service station at 24 Scott Street. Harman was a candidate for the republican nomination for sheriff in 1946.