Lillian Weaver 1911-1995

WEAVER, BURNS, BROYLES, SCHWITZER, BRADLEY

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 3/16/2026 at 09:14:15

Funeral services for Lillian Amelia Weaver, 83, Davenport, were held Nov. 25, 1995 at St. Paul Lutheran church in Davenport, where she was a member. Burial was in the Davenport Memorial park cemetery.

Mrs. Weaver died Nov. 20 at the Davenport Medical Center, following a lengthy illness.

The daughter of Samuel and Anna Lindevig Burns, she was born Nov. 28, 1911 in Lakota, N.D. She was the 2nd oldest of 10 children. The family moved to Montana in 1913 and filed a government homestead claim north of Chinook, Mont.

She attended the homestead school and graduated from chinook high school in 1930. She continued her education at Northern Montana Normal College at Havre and Eastern Montana at Billings, earning her first grade teaching certificate. Taking summer school and courses by mail at several universities, she earned her Montana Life Degree in teaching.

She taught her first school at North Fork in Paradise Valley for 5 years and then taught at the homestead school where she had been a student.

She later became the superintendent of schools in Blaine Couty, Neb., supervising 41 schools for 7 years.

She married Wilbur E. "Bill" Weaver Dec. 28, 1946 in Havre, Mont. Shortly afterward the couple moved to Davenport, where he was a mason contractor.

In 1963 she began work as a reference librarian at St. Ambrose College in Davenport, retiring in 1982.

She enjoyed her grandchildren, genealogy, calligraphy, ceramics, church, writing letters and writing essays and poetry, some of which was published.

Mrs. Weaver is survived by her husband; 3 daughters, Dorothy Anne Dale (Mrs. Joe) Broyles, Louisville, Ky.; Barbara Jean (Mrs. Rod) Schwitzer, Tipton and Patricia Jan Weaver, Maynardville, Tenn.; a son, William James and his wife Lori, Davenport; 9 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren; a sister, Alma Bradley, Kent, Wash.; many nieces and nephews and numerous friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, 2 sisters and 6 brothers.

Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association.

The Tipton Conservative and Advertiser - November 29, 1995 page 10