William J. Weber, My Uncle Bill was 90 years old on June 30th of this year, 2014. He passed away on Saturday morning 9/6/14. He was a Father, Grandfather and Great Grandfather. He is, I believe, the last of the second generation Webers here in Cleveland, Ohio. He grew up at 886 Nela View Rd., in Cleveland Hts. Ohio with his sister, my Mother, Lenora (Lenore) Weber Gunn. His Mother, Marion Liebau Weber, died at 24 years of age, from postpartum hemorrhaging, after the child birth of Bill, on July 1, 1924. My Mom was only 15 months old. Bill was 2 days old. George J. Weber, his Father, was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 18, 1893 and died on November 25, 1975, at 82 years old. Lenore and Bill were raised by George, Monika Weber, their Grandmother and Aunts. Bill joined the US Air Force during WWII and became a Staff Sergeant/bomber gunner with The Flying Tigers in the 308th Bombardment Group. He was stationed in the China/Burma/India Theater from Nov. 21, 1943 to Oct. 18, 1944 and was part of multiple combat missions. See online book at: ancestry.mycanvas/Flash/Viewer.aspx?fp=vganQraqeY8puIYaNKU8Vg%3d%3d&access=xsuWueaXm7Q%3d&trackingId=4b3b7026-8fa2-4890-80f9-858609505dd4 His name is listed on the Cleveland Heights Veterans Memorial, in Cumberland Park, at Mayfield and Cumberland Rd.s, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. clevelandheights/index.aspx?page=842 He bought his supplies from South Euclid Lumber, up Green Rd., from our house on Clinton Avenue. Many times he would stop by for a visit in his carpenters work clothes. He ran his own construction/carpentry business and built many homes in the Cleveland Hts./South Euclid area. Including my parents home from 1957-58, in South Euclid, Ohio. He told my mother he saw some carpentry symbols on a building, while walking to school and knew he wanted to be a carpenter for his career. He loved to grab us and tease us while sitting in a chair playing Rough House, a bear hug, messing our hair or the dreaded Electric Shocker! - a four inch construction nail from his carpenters pocket, poking at our ribs, which felt like a shock!!! YIKES! My brother, Fred and I learned how to stay out of his reach, if he was sitting in a living room chair. It was only funny, if he had one of the other siblings. Watching them squirm, getting playfully tortured was entertaining and a relief that it was not US! He married, Ann Marie Meyer on 7/7/45, from Erie, PA and had five children: Cheryl Ann (Zeleinski); Jeff and Jeanne (twins); Terri Lynne and George Joe Weber. – Wally Gunn, nephew. 9/8/14
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:50:56 +0000
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