Emory Edward WEAVER

WEAVER, GREIMAN, SCHAEFER, RUPPERT, NIGRO, MARYHEW

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/18/2010 at 13:46:36

Mason City Globe Gazette, Iowa
April 20, 1997

GARNER, IA -- Emory E. Weaver, 81, died Saturday (April 19, 1997) at the Concord Care Center. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Zion Evangelical & Reformed Church with the Rev. Darrell Weber as officiant. Burial will be in Concord Township Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Cataldo Funeral Chapel.

Emory Edward Weaver, the son of Louis F. and Lydia Marie (Greiman) Weaver was born April 7, 1916, in Garner. He attended Ell Township #3 and Garner High School. He married Violet Schaefer on June 10, 1937, at the Peace Reformed parsonage south of Garner. They farmed south of Garner until 1954, when they moved to 735 W. Sixth St. in Garner. Emory had worked for Hancock County Co-op Oil Ass'n in Klemme, drove a school bus for the Klemme Community Schools, was employed by Cropley & Kern Phillips 66 Station in Garner, and at Winnebago Industries in Forest City, until retiring in 1981. Emory and Violet established a "Child's Day Care" for babies and young children, which they ran for several years. In 1982, they became foster parents, caring for an American boy, two American girls and eight Vietnamese children. They enabled them to go to secondary school, college and obtain jobs.

Emory was baptized and confirmed at Peace Reformed Church, south of Garner. In 1954, they transferred membership to Zion Evangelical & Reformed Church where Emory served as a Deacon, Elder, president of the congregation and custodian for many years.

Survivors include his wife, Violet Weaver, of Garner; two sons, Egon Weaver and his wife, Elaine, of Boone, and Troy Weaver and his wife, Amanda, of Cartersville, Ga.; a daughter, Candice Ruppert and her husband, Troy, of Summerville, S.C.; five grandchildren, Kent Weaver and his wife, Angela, of Metairie, La., Heather Nigro and her husband, Mark, of Boone, Season Weaver of Cartersville, Ga., and Heath Ruppert and Shane Ruppert, both of Summerville, S.C.; two great-grandchildren, Autumn Weaver of Boone and Alyssa Weaver of Metairie, La.; two brothers, Wiley Weaver and his wife, Evelyn, of Rockwell, and Elwin Weaver and his wife, Florence, of Garner; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his mother, Lydia Weaver, on Dec. 21, 1968; his father, Louis Weaver on May 7, 1972; a brother, Fredrick J. Weaver, in February, 1926; and a sister, Bernice W. Maryhew on Feb. 22, 1982.