Fred Weaver III

Fred Weaver III, M.D. was born in Wheeling, W. Virginia on July 19,1927. He died of heart failure on Sunday, November 28, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He attended Meharry Medical College, graduating in 1955. He was one of the first black residents at U.C.L.A. in the sixties. The father of four children, he is survived by three adult children: Fred Weaver IV; Wanda Weaver and Milton Weaver and his granddaughter, Dawn Outland. The second eldest son, Haywood Weaver, died on March 1, 1993. He also has two nieces, a great-niece and great-nephews. One sister-in-law is Brenda Waters, a former TV anchor. The other sister-in-law is Shirley Waters. In 1952 he married Mildred Dorothy Waters who became the mother of his four children. He married his second wife, Patricia Faulkner, in 1969.

Dr. Weaver served as a medic in the Army Air Corps during his first stint in the military at the end of World War II in Japan. He served in the military a second time with the Air Force as a lieutenant colonel at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu. He had a private practice in psychiatry in Beverly Hills, California for five years.

During his lifetime he authored five books, the most recent one titled “Creative Self Discovery – A Spiritual Journey Into Self”. He developed The Institute for Creative Living, spent many years in Hawaii as head of the adolescent psychiatric unit.

A student of the spiritual masters like the Dahli Lama, Buddha, Yogi & Jesus Christ, he shared these teachings with many other individuals and groups. Full of life and a man who traveled the world, Dr. Weaver transitioned peacefully.