Pauline Weaver, Cottonwood Falls
1926 - 2008
Pauline Weaver of Cottonwood Falls died Tuesday, March 11, 2008, at the Golden Living Center in Cottonwood Falls.
Services are pending at the Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home in Cottonwood Falls.
Pauline Weaver died Tuesday, March 11, 2008, at the Golden Living Center of Chase County in Cottonwood Falls. She was 81.
Mrs. Weaver, a certified nurses aide, worked at the former Beverly Enterprise nursing home in Cottonwood Falls. She also was a homemaker.
The daughter of Ralph and Nellie Parrish Bixler, she was born June 26, 1926, at Greencastle, Ind. She married Dwight Weaver on Feb. 23, 1951, at Marion. He died Aug. 19, 1999.
Mrs. Weaver was a charter member of the KFDI Country Radio Club and the first person to call when the radio station came on the air in 1964. She always answered the telephone with “KFDI’s gonna’ make me rich!” and expected others who answered her telephone to use the same words. The eulogy for Mrs. Weaver was to be given by KFDI disc jockey Johnny Western, but he had a scheduling conflict and cannot attend the service.
She is survived by two sons, Roger L. Weaver of Cottonwood Falls and Steven C. Weaver of Colorado Springs, Colo.; a daughter, Roberta L. Souders of Wheeling, Mo.; a stepson, DeWayne D. Weaver of Arizona; a sister, Katherine Simmerman of Greencastle, Ind.; a half-brother, Arthur Synder of Brazil, Ind.; six grandchildren; and one stepgranddaughter. Two stepdaughters, JoAnn Archer and Carolyn Thornton; three sisters, Annie Hunter, Ellie Bixler and Ruth Addy; and two brothers, Ralphie Bixler and Robert Bixler, died earlier.
The graveside service to celebrate her life will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Prairie Grove Cemetery in rural Cottonwood Falls. The Rev. Rick Smith will conduct the service. The family will meet friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home in Cottonwood Falls. Friends also may call from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions to the H. Dale Buck Animal Welfare Memorial Fund, American Cancer Society or the American Heart Association may be sent in care of the funeral home, 201 Cherry, Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845.
Messages to the family may be left at www.brown-bennett-alexander.com.