Former longtime Fair Havenite LaVanche Eleanor Walker Weber, known to one and all as “Lee”, passed away peacefully on Monday, Sept. 23, at home with her children by her side. She was 97.
Lee arrived on Jan. 1, 1927, the third of four children born to Helen Marie Rothacker and Charles Herbert Walker, of Newark.
Lee met the love of her life, Henry (Hank) Weber through her brother, Buddy. They married in 1951 and raised their family first in East Orange, then New Shrewsbury, finally moving to Fair Haven in 1967. They loved each other devotedly until Hank’s passing in 2007.
Lee is pre-deceased by: her dear husband, Hank; her beloved son, Gregory; her parents, Helen and Charles; her siblings Jean, Charles, Jr. (aka Buddy), and Donald.
She leaves behind: her daughters, Cynthia Weber-Cleary (Denis), of Highlands, and Jenifer Weber, of Red Bank; her daughter-in-law, Kelly Weber, of Atlantic Highlands; and her grandchildren Lauren, Emma, Mac, Charlotte and Eli, “who all miss her already, but are all fiercely proud of the loving, fearless, wise-cracking, elegant, soft-hearted, maddening, magnificent person who was the matriarch of our family.”
She also bids farewell to many well-loved friends from all walks of life, including: Diane Dey, Joyce Haebler, Joan Nugent, Arlene Lospinosa, Sissie Redden, and Ann McKee, with special mentions of Heidi Burton, Rebecca Beebe, and Maud Quarmayne, who each conspired to help make her last years very happy ones, indeed.
Visitation will be held at Thompson Memorial Home in Red Bank on Monday, Sept. 30, from 4 to 7 p.m., and a celebration of life will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 1, at 11 a.m. at the Presbyterian Church at Shrewsbury. The family requests that any memorial gifts be directed to FCS of Monmouth County 191 Bath Ave., Long Branch 07740.
— Edited obituary prepared by family via Thompson Memorial Home
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