OBIT: Mary Lois (BENDER) WEAVER, 2003, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  MARY LOIS WEAVER 
  January 3, 1919 - February 25, 2003
  
    Mary Lois Weaver died at home on Waldron Island, Washington, on
  February 25, 2003, of multiple myeloma.  She was buried the following
  day in the Waldron Cemetery by her family.
    Mary was born January 3, 1919, to Mark and Effie (Miller) Bender in
  Grantsville, Md.  She was the oldest of three sisters who grew up in
  the Casselman Valley of southwestern Pennsylvania.  Her extended
  family were people of Mennonite and Amish tradition, who were a
  strong and sustaining influence upon her life.
    Mary attended Goshen College in Indiana, where piano study became
  her primary interest.
    She married Robert F. Weaver of Goshen on June 25, 1941.  They
  lived in Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, and first moved to
  Waldron Island with their four children in 1955.  Ten years later she
  graduated from Western Washington State College.
    Mary and Bob's children are Nellie Habegger of Lost Prairie,
  Oregon; and Anna Scruton and Chris Weaver of Waldron.  Their son,
  Andy, died in 1990.  Grandchildren are: Sophie Rapp, and Nell and
  Tillie Scruton; Simon and Eliza Habegger; and Ilse and Sally
  Huntley.  Paul Rapp is their great-grandson.  Mary's sisters are:
  Bernice Bartholomew of Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Anne Johnson of
  Fort Worth, Texas.
    Mary's interests were varied. She loved music of many kinds, and
  she loved to make music on the piano, and to sing.  She was
  knowledgeable about the natural world, and was particular interested
  in birds, mushrooms, astronomy, and plants both wild and
  cultivated.  She was an insatiable reader.  She taught Head Start in
  Mt. Vernon, Washington; kindergarten in Friday Harbor, Washington;
  2nd grade in Neah Bay, Washington, on the Makah Indian Reservation;
  and all grades in Waldron's one-room schoolhouse for 15 years.  Until
  illness intervened, Mary daily walked miles on the roads of Waldron.  
  
  New Republic, March 27, 2003
  
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