| Herbert "Grandpa" Weber
Herbert W. "Grandpa" Weber, 93, of Moline, died
Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at Heartland Health Care Center, Moline.
Services are 10:30 a.m. Friday at Beulah Presbyterian Church,
Orion. Burial is in Greenview Memorial Gardens, East Moline. Visitation
is 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Schroder Mortuary, Silvis. Memorials go to
Beulah Presbyterian Church Memorial Fund.
He was born Oct. 7, 1909, in Geneseo to Herman and Josephine
Sweeney Weber. He married Etheleen Paxton Oct. 15, 1927, in Moline. She
died in November 1980.
Herbert and his wife owned and operated Plow City Ceramics in the
1960s and 1970s, and he also worked for Moline American Legion Post 246.
He was a precision grinder for John Deere Plow and Planter, retiring in
1972 after 42 years of service. While at John Deere, Herbert received
several commendations for his safety inventions.
He was a member of Beulah Presbyterian Church. He also was a
Sunday school teacher and the superintendent of Sunday school for many
years at the Baptist Church in Erie. He was a volunteer for the SHARE
program at Coyne Center, Earl Hanson School, Rock Island, and the Rock
Island National Cemetery. He was an avid Civil War re-enactor with the
Unit Scotts Tennessee Battery since 1981. He was also in two major
motion pictures, "Glory" and "Gettysburg." He was
the Super Senior in 1983.
Herbert also enjoyed gardening, models and string art. He was known as
"Apple Grandpa" by many.
Survivors (and spouses) include his daughters, Joyce Schoening
and Mary Jo White, both of Rock Island, and Jackie (George) Brown,
Lanark, Ill.; son, Bill (Mary) Weber, Milan; grandchildren, Carol Ann
Schoening, Lester (Christyne) White and Kenneth White, all of Rock
Island, Lewis Brown, Lanark, Vicky (Doug) Blair, Orion, Bill Weber Jr.,
Milan, Mary Ellen (Luis) Vasquez, East Moline, and Penny (Edmund)
Peterson, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.; 14 great-grandchildren; eight
great-great-grandchildren; three stepgreat-grandchildren; five stepgreat-great-grandchildren;
and sister, Joan (Charles) Studuhar, Webster City, Iowa. He was preceded
in death by a son, Kenneth, his parents, three brothers and two sisters.
(Rock Island Argus, Wednesday, June 18, 2003)
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