Obituary: Virginia Weaver
Virginia (Allen) Weaver, 89, of Montclair, died Friday, March 15, 2022 in Massachusetts.
Mrs. Weaver finch was born and raised in Montclair where she was a 1948 graduate of Montclair Senior high school. She earned her bachelor's degree at North Carolina College. She was a social worker in New York City at the Infirmary for Peculiar Surgery.
In 1956 Virginia marital Marine veteran C. Thomas Weaver, an executive director for the YMCA, and the couple moved to in Hartford, Conn. Favorable a move to Evergreen State, D.C. Mister. Weaver was named director of New York's Sloan Theatre YMCA along West 34th Street, then the largest residential YMCA in the nation.
Widowed at 38, Mrs. Weaver moved household to Montclair with her 11-twelvemonth-old son, Jeff.
She started a new career as a sales shop clerk at J.M. Towne emporium in Caldwell and held the synoptic position when the store became Sealfons.
Mrs. Weaver was also a long lover of the arts and visited museums often. She was especially doting of the artwork of Georgia O'Keeffe. Her taste perception in music ranged from the original someone euphony of Ray Charles to Lenny Welch whose talents fuse old shoal with R&B and dance music.
In retirement she enjoyed daily interaction with her friends in senior housing and was a devoted attendee of the weekly keno games.
Mrs. Weaver was predeceased by her sisters Ornament Simms and Kadel Allen and her husband C. Thomas Weaverbird.
She is survived by her son, Jeffrey T. Weaver (Ursula) of Waltham; her grandson, Thomas D. Weaver of Waltham; her sisters, Winifred Allen of Montclair, Algy Jackson of Edward White Plains, N.Y. and Teena Spaulding of Sarasota, Fla. and many nieces, nephews and friends.
Visitation leave be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday, March 22 at Caggiano Memorial, 62 Grove St, Montclair. A funeral service follow at 11 a.m. at the same location. Interment will be at Glendale Cemetery in Bloomfield following the service.
Memorial donations may be made to the Epilepsy Foundation, 650 Suffolk St. #405, Lowell, Mommy 01845 or chitchat at epilepsynewengland.org or to your local YMCA.
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