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Sam Altis "Lightening" Weaver

4 Sep 1903 – 9 Jun 1999

Birth	4 Sep 1903
Death	9 Jun 1999
Cemetery	Brunson Memorial Cemetery Eunice , Lea County , New Mexico , USA
Added by	Marilyn Rodgers on 21 Apr 2022
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43006377

Bio

Twin to Sam Alton Weaver Services for Sam "Lightning" Weaver, 95, of Eunice were at the First Baptist Church with the Rev. Keeney Dickenson officiating and the Rev. Alan Speed, of Calvary Baptist Church in Jal, N.M., assisting. Burial was in Brunson Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Calvary Funeral Home. He died Wednesday, June 9, 1999, at Hobbs Health Care Center. He was born Sept. 4, 1903, in Tennessee Colony. He married Ollie Johnson of June 14, 1923, in Wortham. She preceded him in death. He attended school at Fairfield. He began work as a cobbler in Levelland. He moved to Monument in 1935 to work for Me-Tex Water and Gas. He was a lease contractor and tool dresser for Wilson Oil Co. He retired in 1978. He was a member of First Baptist Church. Survivors include two sons, Douglas Wayne Weaver of Waco and Billy Weaver of Eunice; a daughter, Patsy Essman of Jal; a sister, Lovie Miles of Mabank; seven grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

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Family

Parents

• Walter R Weaver 1868–1941
• Henryetta Weaver 1873–1966

Spouse

• Ollie Weaver 1906–1970

Siblings

• John Franklin Weaver 1893–1946
• George S. Weaver 1896–1965
• Mary Magdalene Weaver McBride 1897–1997
• Walter James Weaver 1901–1943
• Sam Alton Weaver 1903–1977
• Winnie Mable Weaver Moore 1906–1983
• Ophelia J Weaver Clark 1909–1999
• William Elmer Weaver 1912–1997
• Lovie Lucille Weaver Miles 1915–2003
• Otis Dowden Weaver 1919–1994

Children

• Douglas W. Weaver 1926–2012
• Billy Joe Weaver 1931–2020
• Patsy A Weaver Essman 1935–2017

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