Lois Reisch Weber
Lois Reisch Weber, 88, formerly of Indiana, Greensburg, Butler and Erie, died at 11 p.m. Tuesday in the Passavant Retirement Community in Zelienople.
Born July 23, 1921, in Southington, Conn., she was the daughter of the late Otto Reisch and Minnie Weckworth Reisch.
Mrs. Weber was a 1943 Cum Laude graduate of Wagner College.
She was a homemaker and assistant to her husband who was the pastor at various Lutheran churches.
She was a member of Seaman Memorial Lutheran Church in Zelienople. She was a volunteer for Meals on Wheels, PARC and in the early seventies she helped bring people into the mainstream from mental facilities. She volunteered for Emmaus Soup Kitchen while in Erie which helped feed the hungry. She also volunteered at St John's Lutheran Home in Erie. She was a past president of WELCA and was a longtime Sunday school teacher.
Mrs. Weber is survived by her husband, the Rev. Reinhold (Dutch) Weber, whom she married on May 17, 1943; a daughter, Judy Schuster of Cleveland; three sons, Mark Weber and his wife, Lynette, of Jacksonville, Fla., Rick Weber and his wife, Eleanor, of Butler and Tae Ro and his wife, Linda, of Youngstown; nine grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; two brothers, Robert Reisch and his wife, Sybil, of Westport, N.Y., and Jack Reisch and his wife, Kathryn, of Doylestown, Pa.; and several nieces and nephews.
<B>WEBER </B>— Friends of Lois Reisch Weber, who died Tuesday, March 30, 2010, will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the <B>Thompson-Miller Funeral Home</B>, 124 E. North St., Butler. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church, where her husband had been pastor for 19 years, with the Rev. Thomas M. Pierotti, the Rev. Wil Goetze and the Rev. John Hoogerbrugge of Passavant Retirement Community officiating.In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to The Lutheran Senior Life Foundation, 400 Culvert St. Zelienople, PA 16063 or to The Emmaus Soup Kitchen 218 E. 11th St., Erie, PA 16503-1010.Information and private guest book is available at www.thompson-miller.com
