Charles W. WEISS

WEISS, SMITH, BAFF, GRAHAM, GERARD, MCCABE, GRAHAM, SHAFFER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/28/2015 at 14:46:59

October 7, 1932--- August 24, 2015

HAMPTON, IA — Funeral services for Charles W. “Charlie” “Bob” Weiss, 82, of Hampton, will be 10 a.m. Thursday at Hampton Grace Methodist Church. Burial will be in Greenview Memorial Gardens, East Moline. Visitation will be 3-8 p.m. Wednesday (today) at Van Hoe Funeral Home, Ltd., East Moline, where a Masonic service will be 7:30 p.m. Mr. Weiss died Monday, Aug. 24, 2015, at his home.

Charles was born Oct. 7, 1932, in Clarion, Iowa, the son of Charlie E. and Marian F. Smith Weiss. He was raised on the family farm and attended a one-room schoolhouse in Dows, Iowa. He moved to Illinois in 1943. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict from 1952-1954, being stationed on the 38th Parallel. He married Valerie Baff April 17, 1955, at Port Byron Methodist Church. Charles started work at the age of 16 at International Harvester, East Moline, where he worked 43 years and retired. He then contracted with them for 13 more years until the plant closure in 2004. His family was his world. He loved to share his many stories with his grandkids and great-grandkids of his mischievous adventures as a youth. He had been a member of Hampton Grace Methodist Church for 50 years, Free Mason for 55 years, Past Patron of the Order of Eastern Star and a Hampton volunteer firefighter.

Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Valerie Weiss, Hampton; daughter, Stacey (Michael) Graham, Erie, Ill.; son, Charles J. (Melinda) Weiss, Clarksville, Tenn.; grandchildren, Tami (Guy) Gerard, Moline, Jeremy (Teanna) McCabe, Taylor Ridge, Charles Thomas (Sherrod) Weiss, Fayetteville, N.C., Joseph Weiss, Peoria, and Hilary Graham (fiancé, Jeffery Shaffer), McLean, Ill.; great-grandchildren, Morgan and Alexis Gerard, Myles and Cole McCabe, and Landen Shaffer; sister, Betty Baff, Port Byron; brothers, William Weiss, Hampton, and Byrl Weiss, East Moline. He was preceded in death by his parents; infant daughter, Lisa Jeané; brother, Harold Lee; sister-in-law, Mary Ann Weiss; and brother-in law, Jerry Baff. Memorials may be made to the family.

Quad City Times - Moline, Illinois
August 26, 2015