Ruby Weaver
HESSTON - Ruby Weaver, 79,
homemaker and former elementary school teacher, died Wednesday (Dec. 7, 2005)
at Schowalter Villa in Hesston. She was born Aug. 11, 1926, to Solomon and
Barbara (Yoder) Zook in Ulen, Minn. She married Gene Weaver May 14, 1949, in
Hutchinson. He survives of Hesston. She grew up in Surrey, N.D. She taught
elementary school at Daisy Elementary School in Yoder for two years. She
graduated from Goshen College with an associate of arts degree and attended Hesston
College in 1943. She was a member of Whitestone Mennonite Church. She also
worked for Royal Turkey Farm, Hesston Mill and the Hesston College Post Office.
Other survivors include:
sons, Robert and Phyllis Weaver of Hesston, Galen and Dixie Weaver of Amarillo,
Texas, and Greg and Debra Weaver of Kingman; a daughter, Marcia and Chago
Mendez of Hesston; brothers, Durbin and Mildred Zook of Goshen, Ind., and Lloyd
and Loretta Zook of Hesston; a brother-in-law, Levi Yoder of Hutchinson;
grandchildren and spouses, Andrea and Pete Herrera of Tyler, Texas, Tim and
Marguerite Weaver of Wichita, Adam Weaver, Michael Mendez, Christopher Mendez
and Marcos Mendez, all of Hesston, and Jeremy and Megan Horn of Kingman; and
great-grandchildren, Sophia Herrera, Samuel Weaver, Ben Benjamin and Chris
Benjamin.
She was preceded in death by
a sister, Esther Yoder.
Visitation will be from 2 to
8 p.m. today with family greeting friends from 6 to 8 p.m. at Miller Funeral
Home in Hesston.
Burial will be 10:30 a.m.
Saturday in Eastlawn Cemetery.
Memorial service will be
11:30 a.m. Saturday at Whitestone Mennonite Church in Hesston with Pastor Mark
Miller officiating.
Memorials have been
established with Schowalter Villa in care of the funeral home, 107 S. Lancaster
Ave., Hesston, KS 67062.
