Lucille Ann Weaver..... Age 87

Visitation: 6-8 pm Friday February 9, 2018.
Service: 1 pm Saturday February 10, 2018
all at Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home.
Burial: Osawatomie Cemetery
Memorials: First Baptist Church of Osawatomie
send c/o Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home
P.O. Box 430
Osawatomie, KS 66064.
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Lucille Ann (Waller) Weaver, age 87, of Osawatomie, Kansas, went Home to be with Jesus on the morning of February 2, 2018, at Select Specialty Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri.

Lucille was born in Osawatomie to parents Harvey Centinel and Iona May (Chadwick) Waller and big sister Roberta May (Waller) Clark on June 10, 1930.

On December 5, 1954, Lucille and Cloman Dennison Weaver wed at the First Baptist Church in Osawatomie. A life-long Osawatomie resident, Lucille graduated from Osawatomie High School in 1948, but not before becoming Annual Queen. She worked in the Wicke-Hurst Drug Store, the American State Bank, and as secretary to the school superintendent, George York, who encouraged her to get a teaching degree and return to teach.

Growing up Lucille enjoyed playing with her sister and her cousins. Often the cousins would come stay for a few days, or her family would go to their house in Kansas City to visit. She also had a friend the same age right up the street from her home with whom she spent many hours and they remained in contact all these years.

Lucille began her college career at Ursuline Academy in Paola, Kansas. She went on to take courses at Washburn in Topeka, and then graduated with her teaching degree from Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas. Later, she earned her Reading Specialist certification from Webster University.

Lucille entered her teaching career teaching fourth grade at the Meek (West) School in Osawatomie, and then transferred to Osawatomie Junior High. She taught until she and Cloman started their family, then she stayed home to raise their four children. When the children were all in school, Lucille returned to Osawatomie Junior High, teaching English, Art, and Girls’ Health. She later taught in Drexel, Missouri, finishing her teaching career by retiring from the Spring Hill School District. Cloman was awarded trips through his business to St. Croix, Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, Acapulco, and Hawaii, etc., which he and Lucille greatly enjoyed. When they settled down to begin their family, Lucille decided to halt the overseas traveling, saying she was not going to leave “a bunch of orphans” for someone else to raise.

Lucille’s passion in life was spending time with her family. Getting together for birthdays, holidays, or no occasion at all would suit her perfectly. Many picnics in various places, not the least of which were the ones in her own or her parents’ backyards, picking up pecans down around La Cygne, Kansas, picking apples or peaches at the orchard in Parker, Kansas, and Sunday afternoon country drives were some favorites.

Lucille also loved her church family, too, and was a lifelong member of the First Baptist Church of Osawatomie; she just recently received a plaque for her 70-year membership there. When life changed so that she could not make it to her home church, she attended church services at Life Care Center, where she was a resident. Her children and grandchildren accompanied her when they could.

Lucille was an avid flower gardener. Each year she would add new flowers or decorative shrubs to her yard, and then nurture them until they thrived. She loved irises, tulips, hyacinths, “forever” roses, lilies, flowering and color-changing shrubs, as well as annuals such as salvia, periwinkle, begonias, petunias, and impatiens.

Survivors include her daughters Julie Weaver of Osawatomie, Heather (Roger) Strope of Jefferson City, MO, Paula (Rob) McMullen of Spring Hill, KS, her son Kent Weaver of the home, grandchildren Samuel, Nathaniel, & Savannah McMullen, all also of Spring Hill, step-granddaughter Tara (Shane) Ravenscroft, step-great-grandson Logan Worrell, all of Shawnee, KS, and many other relatives and friends.

Lucille was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, her sister, and one son-in-law, Randy Smith.