Warren Weaver
Warren Weaver
June 29, 1939 – March 28, 2011
Grinnell, Iowa
Visitation: 5:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at Smith Funeral Home in Grinnell
Funeral Service: 10:30 a.m., Thursday, March 31, 2011 at Smith Funeral Home in Grinnell
Interment: following the service on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at Prairie View Cemetery in Gilman
Memorials can be designated to the Warren Weaver Memorial Fund, PO Box 368, Grinnell, IA 50112. Proceeds will benefit the boys baseball and girls softball little leagues in Grinnell and Gilman.
Warren was born on June 29, 1939 in Grinnell, Iowa to Fred Lloyd Weaver, Sr. and Ida Madeline Barr. He was raised in the Chester Township north of Grinnell, where he attended country school and began his passion of playing baseball. He graduated from Grinnell High School with the class of 1957.
He was united in marriage to Rosemary Davis on November 18, 1963 at the United Methodist Church in Maryville, Missouri. The couple lived and farmed near Gilman and later moved to the Chester Township, where they raised their children and farmed. He drove a semi for Gene Campbell C&K Transfer, Haworth Trucking, and for Jeld-Wen Windows and Doors.
Warren was a lifelong baseball fan. He reminisced about playing baseball as a youngster at country school and at the Chester Church Youth Group. As an adult he enjoyed playing and coaching fast pitch. He closely followed the Chicago Cubs, Iowa Hawkeyes, and Grinnell Tigers and could recall outstanding plays that others had long forgotten. Warren enjoyed league bowling, card games, Canadian fishing trips, reunions of the GHS class of 1957 and swapping stories. He took great pride in his children and grandchildren.
Warren is survived by his wife of 47 years, Rosemary Weaver of Grinnell; 3 children: Scott and Sheila Weaver of Raleigh, NC and their children Skye, Courtney and Jerod; Angela and Scott Raue of Belle Plaine, IA; Robin and Dan Isaacson and their children, Caleb and Carson of Huxley, IA; and his siblings, Fred Weaver, Jr. of Grinnell, Dolores Harrison of Tucson, Arizona, Marilyn Merkel of Plano, TX, and Roger Weaver of Williamsburg, IA. He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother, Garry Weaver in 2009.
Source: Smith Funeral Home
