Lawrence Weber

He was born May 30, 1925 in Luther, OK into a farming family. The second child and only son of Lawrence Leland and Emma Mae Jarvis Weber.

He was a child during the Great Depression and Oklahoma’s Dust Bowl years. Then in October of 1943 as an 18-year-old, he left his senior year in school to join the United States Navy, as a member of the Seabees (the Construction Battalions.)

He went from his small Oklahoma home town where he knew everyone to a Marine training base in Rhode Island where he knew no one. From there he was shipped out to World War II in the South Pacific. He determined that if he made it back to the United States, he’d never leave again. And he didn’t.

He married hometown girl Peggy Marie Rae Hrdlicka August 6, 1946. They had two children Claudia Lynn, born November 22, 1947, and Monte Matthew, born September 28, 1949.

They farmed, then he went to work for Central Rural Electric. Then he went to work for Oklahoma Gas and Electric. After that, he bought and operated a Mobil gas station. Then he sold appliances at the Sears store in Oklahoma City and from there he went to work for the City of Edmond, then to Edmond Memorial Hospital and finally to Oklahoma Christian College where he retired to an acreage in South Logan County to return to his first love – farming, albeit on a small scale. The farthest they lived from “home” during that time was Stillwater.

When his children were growing up, he enjoyed going on vacations, most often meaning trips to either the Texas Gulf Coast or the mountains of Colorado.

After 58 years of marriage and Peggy’s death, he moved to Lakewood, Colorado, with his daughter and her husband. Central Oklahoma was always “home” but he soon felt “at home” in Lakewood.

Lakewood is on the southwest side of Denver right at the beginning of the foothills to the Rocky Mountains. Most errands took them down toward Denver, but coming home he never failed to appreciate the homeward bound view of the mountains.

“It looks just like a picture,” he would say.

Lawrence was preceded in death by his wife of 58 years Peggy Hrdlicka Weber, his parents Lawrence Leland Weber and Emma Mae Jarvis Weber and his sisters Leland Mae Spriggs, Virginia Ellen Donnell, and Thelma Grace Beagle. Lawrence is survived by his two children, Claudia and her husband, Scott and Matt and his lady, Ida; three grandchildren, John Ryan Hill and his wife, Sonja, Julie Suzanne Sorrels, and Grace Frances Marie Wagner; five great grandchildren, Taylor Matthew Nolen and his wife, Kati, Zoë Marie Sorrels, Martha Lynn-Marie Hill, John Riley Hill, and Silas Lawrence Hill and a very long lifetime of friends and relatives who have been blessed to know him.