Clyde Weaver

Clyde Alex Weaver, first child of Claude Allen Weaver and Lottie Farquhar Weaver, was born February 16, 1916 at their farm home near Lake Benton, Minnesota. When he was two years old, his mother died in childbirth when his sister, Marguerite, was born. Their Grandmother Farquhar cared for the children at her home near Sutherland, Iowa, while his father prepared for a farm sale, at which time he joined them. He and the two children lived with an aunt and uncle, Dale and Gena Youde, until he remarried. Clyde attended country school in Grant Township and high school in Sutherland, where he graduated in 1934. He attended business college in Sioux City for a short time and then worked on several farms until he married Wilma Hoogeterp of Newkirk, Iowa. They were married September 2, 1942 at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska. They farmed first in the Royal-Sutherland area before buying their present farm in the Lake Park-Milford area. Clyde loved music and sang in a duet and quartet in country school, sang in the choir at Maple Grove Church of God, which he attended as a child and youth. He was baptized there on July 18, 1937. After marriage he attended Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Royal and was confirmed there March 12, 1944. After transferring to First Lutheran Church in Milford, he sang there until past eighty years of age. In November 2003 he joined St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Hartley. He loved the farm, his church and people. He especially liked to watch young children grow up, become adults and see what they did with their lives. He and Wilma never had any children of their own, but adopted a son, Allan. They helped and loved the late Bruce J. Hjelm, who they called a second son. Mr. Weaver passed away Saturday, June 29, 2013 at Hilltop Care Center in Spirit Lake at ninety seven years of age.. Surviving are their adopted son, Allan, of Yakima, Washington; sister, Marguerite Borland of Santa Monica, California; half-sister, Maxine Ewoldt, of Paullina, Iowa; half-brothers, Dr. Douglas Weaver and wife, Sue, of Calumet, Iowa, Burdette Weaver, and wife Mavis, of Paullina, Iowa; half-brother-in-law, John Tuttle, and wife, Liz, of Cherokee; special friends, the family of Bruce Hjelm, and many other relatives and friends. Preceding him in death were his wife, Wilma, his father, Claude, his mother, Lottie, his step-mother, Linda, a half-brother, James Weaver, a half-sister, LaVonne Anderson, a half-sister, Beverly Tuttle, a half brother, Robert Weaver and his wife, Velma. Service: 10:30 am, Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Hartley, Iowa. Interment: Waterman Cemetery in Sutherland, Iowa. Visitation: after 3 pm Tuesday, July 2, 2013 with the family present from 5-7 pm at Turner Jenness Funeral Home in Milford.