Weaver, Katherine A. Linscheid (1926-1994)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1994 Aug 25 p. 11

Birth date: 1926 Mar 13

Text of obituary:

KATHERINE A. WEAVER

Katherine A. (Linscheid) Weaver, of Elgin, Ill., was born March 13, 1926, in Newton, Kan., to John Edward and Anna Elizabeth (Claassen) Linscheid.

After graduating from Bethel College, North Newton, she taught for a year in Little River, Kan., and worked the following year in Mexico with Mennonite Central Committee. She then began studies at Bethany Theological Seminary, Chicago, where she met and later married Clyde E. Weaver on June 28, 1961.

After setting aside her formal career for a time to raise their family of three, Katherine returned to teaching. Working first in Elmhurst, she later became employed in the Elgin School system in 1970, where she worked in special education and was in the forefront of L. D. education in Elgin.

Katherine was a partner in ministry with her husband and also an active, independent woman with a mind and a career of her own. As the wife of a pastor and international missionary, she enjoyed meeting people and sharing the trials and tribulations of Clyde's many travels and dreams.

In 1992 Katherine was stricken with cancer. Still, her quiet resolve, courageous faith and the devotion of her husband and family allowed her to live each day to its fullest. On March 2, 1994, Clyde was stricken with a fatal heart attack, and Katherine faced the loss with great faith. In July she became a resident of Michaelsen Healthcare Center, Batavia. She died July 29, 1994, in the presence of her family, at the age of 68.

She is survived by three children: John and wife Linda of St. Charles, Mark and wife Connie and Becky Wadleigh and husband Bill, all of Geneva; two grand-daughters; and a sister, Marjorie L. Isaak of Sellersville, Pa.

Services were held at the Church of the Brethren, Elgin.