George Frederick Weber
Birth: 15 Nov 1874, Wenona, Bay County, MI
Death: 27 Nov 1938
Burial: Trinity Lutheran Church, Monitor, MI
Spouse: Magdelena Rosina TACKMAN1
Birth: 21 Aug 1881, Sebawaing, MI
Death: 28 Oct 1946, Frankenlust Cemetery
Father: John TACKMAN
Mother: Mary RUMMEL
Children:
Rose (Rosina) (1902-1963)
William Frederick (1903-1991)
Henry (1905-1989)
Edward (1906-1990)
Clara (1908-1996)
Pauline (AKA Elizabeth H.P.) (1909-1939)
Otto (1911-1913)
Leonard John (1913-1996)
Conrad John (1915-)
Alvina (1917-1919)
Lenora Wilhilmina (1920-1973)
Irene (1923-1972)
THE MAN -George Weber was a very strict person, a male chauvinist for his day. He really had little or no money, but still raised his family of 10 kids on the farm. Lois says the family was very important to him. He was the one who had a cement box put around little Henry's grave (our little brother who died). I remember this marking the grave site at the St. Matthew's cemetery. He also had a marker put on the graves of Uncle Connie's twin boys who died. Also when the Moniter church was threatening to excommunicate Henry because he had not paid his pledge to the church, George Weber paid the debt for him.
HOME: The made their home at 10479 North Hackett Road in Freeland, Michigan. The home is occupied currently. There they raised a family of twelve children, six boys and six girls. The family farmed for a living.
GEORGE'S DEATH - He was 64 years old when he died, on November 27, 1938. Richard, Henry's son said that he "did not remember him much at all. I have only the vaguest of thought of him." He died in 1938, the year I was born, before Grandma Weber. He died of a heart attack, poor circulation. He was a tall man and presented a problem with fitting him into a casket. Lois says they checked and found that the funeral director had to twist and bend his legs to fit him into the coffin. Lois remembers his funeral, she wanted to see him in the coffin, and had to be asked to be lifter up to see. She thinks that perhaps cousins Ruth or Rita did this for her. he was buried at Trinity Lutheran Church Home Cemetery in Monitor.
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