John Robert was born on the 6th of February 1932 to John Quinlan and Jean Vistula Weatherly. A native Houstonian, he attended the Kinkaid School. He graduated from Fountain Valley School for Boys in Colorado Springs in l950, and went on to attend the University of Virginia from which he graduated in l954. Subsequently, John Robert attended the University of Texas School of Law from which he held a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree received in 1957. He was a graduate student at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1957-1958. While at UVa John Robert lived on the Lawn for two years, was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and the Jefferson Society.
After law school John Robert joined his father in legal practice where he was a partner with his father and later his son in the law firm of Weatherly & Weatherly; which his son continues to run. In addition to his work at the law firm, John Robert served as an Assistant Probate Judge in 1962.
Though a lawyer by profession, John Robert was a gentleman scholar and lay historian at heart. John Robert was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of the Confederacy, Sons of the Republic of Texas and the Magna Charta Society. He was also a member of the Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as the Raven Society, Lawn Society and the Cornerstone Society at the University of Virginia.
John Robert was preceded in death by his loving wife, Elinor Joan Wier Weatherly; his parents; and his brother, Thomas Lee Weatherly. He is survived by his children, John Robert Weatherly, Jr. and his wife Dana Runge Weatherly, Margaret Wier Weatherly Roney and her husband John Robert Roney, and Elizabeth Wier Weatherly; grandchildren, John Robert “Jack” Weatherly, III, Danielle Rose Weatherly, David Stuart Roney, Matthew Robert Roney, Elizabeth Leigh Roney, Rebecca Grace Roney, and Marianna Margaret Roney. He is also survived by his sister-in-law, Mary Margaret Wier Kelsey, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from five o’clock in the afternoon until seven o’clock in the evening on Monday, the 1st of August, in the Library and Grand Foyer of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
A memorial service is to be conducted at one o’clock in the afternoon on Tuesday, the 2nd of August, at Chapelwood United Methodist Church, 11140 Greenbay Street in Houston, where Rev. Wick Stuckey is to officiate.
Prior to the memorial service, the family will have gathered for a private interment at Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery in Houston.
In lieu of customary remembrances, the family requests with gratitude that memorial contributions in John Robert’s honor be directed to the John Robert and Joan Wier Weatherly Library Endowment Fund at the University of Virginia, Attn: Karen Wittenburg, Alderman Library, P.O. Box 400114, Charlottesville, VA, 22904; or to the Chapelwood United Methodist Church Foundation, 11140 Greenbay St., Houston, TX, 77024.
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