Parents J. Adam Weber & Katherine Schoessler

Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, October 6, 1960

Last Rites Held Here Saturday for Adam Weber, Area Pioneer
Funeral services were conducted for John Adam Weber, 92, one of the oldest residents of Adams county, at the Philadelphia Congregational church.
Rev. Herbert Haemmelmann officiated at the services. Interment was at Ritzville Memorial cemetery.
Pallbearers included Carl Weber, Gary Weber, Eugene Weber, Wallace Weber and Eldon Heimbigner.
Weber was born Jan. 8, 1868, in Walter Colony, Russia, near the Volga river. His first marriage was to Magdelena Geist in Russia in 1887.
In 1889, Weber and his wife came to America with their daughter, Katherine, and settled in Walla Walla.
The family lived there until 1891, when they moved to a homestead near Packard.
In 1905, Magdelena died, leaving Weber to care for 12 children born to the couple.
He moved to Quincy that fall and there met and married Caroline Hoppe, a widow with four children. Four more children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Weber.
The couple later moved to a farm he had purchased in Lincoln county and they lived there until 1915. They lived in Ritzville for a while before moving to Wenatchee, Dryden, Spokane, Bellingham, Cashmere and Seattle.
Mr. and Mrs. Weber moved to Ritzville to live in 1953 and had celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1956.
He was a member of the Philadelphia Congregational church, formerly a member of the board of directors of the Packard Farmers' Warehouse company and had served on the school board in District No. 111 of Lincoln county.
Surviving are his wife, Caroline, at the home in Ritzville; six daughters, Mrs. Lena Reiman, Dryden, Mrs. Lydia Heimbigner, Ritzville, Mrs. Edith Ferris, Everett, Mrs. Martha Williams, Odessa, Mrs. Elsie Holdfver, Seattle, and Mrs. Esther Nichlos, Berkeley, Calif.; seven sons, Henry, Wenatchee, John, Dan (Speed) and Harry, all of Ritzville, Dave, Odessa, George, Seattle, and Sam, Salmon, Ida.; a sister, Mrs. Catherine Reider, Portland, Ore.; two brothers, Jacob, Portland, Ore., and Henry, Wenatchee; 74 grandchildren and 147 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Thank you Sue Gardner for this transcription.

Note: There is a very short Obit in reference to John Adams first wife Magdalena Geist print October 1905 " Mrs. Adams Weber died Oct. 23, 1905 at the farm twelve miles northwest of the city. Twelve small childre are left in the care of the father"

Washington State Journal October 1905 Sue Gardner & gapwork90