Margaret Winifred Weihs Margaret Winifred Weihs, born August 3, 1924 died in her Austin home on September 15, 2011. Margaret was raised in Seguin and San Antonio, the sixth in a family of seven children. At 18, she married the dashing Allenby Killingsworth Duke. At 20, she was widowed when Allenby was killed on an air mission on the European front of WWII. She was eight months pregnant with her daughter, Allenby Kay Roeber, at that time. After his death, she went to work for the Veteran's Administration, where she rose rapidly despite the lack of a college education. At 28, Margaret married Phillip Donald Weihs, a Lieutenant in the Air Force. They enjoyed 58 years of a happy and unusually close marriage, ending with his death in September 2010. While raising Kay, they had two additional children, Diana and Don. Our mother was a strong, intelligent, fiercely independent and deeply private woman, who was determined not to have us suffer the loss of two parents in one calendar year. She achieved that goal, despite advanced cardiac and renal disease. Her three children, her two brothers Bob Schmidt and Charles Schmidt, and six grandchildren- Paul and Steve Roeber, Virginia and Margaret Weihs, and Walker and Ming Tai, survive her. We would like to thank her kind and patient physicians, Tom Blevins, Michael Watkins, and Michael Pelligrini. We are also full of gratitude to Marlene Blaisdell, a hospice nurse at Robinson Creek, who nurtured us, as well as our dad through his two-year illness and our mother through this past year. Internment at Fort Sam Houston with our dad is planned for a later date.
Published by Austin American-Statesman on Sep. 20, 2011.
Published by Austin American-Statesman on Sep. 20, 2011.
Margaret Winifred Weihs Margaret Winifred Weihs, born August 3, 1924 died in her Austin home on September 15, 2011. Margaret was raised in Seguin and San Antonio, the sixth in a family of seven children. At 18, she married the dashing Allenby Killingsworth Duke. At 20, she was widowed when Allenby was killed on an air mission on the European front of WWII. She was eight months pregnant with her daughter, Allenby Kay Roeber, at that time. After his death, she went to work for the Veteran's Administration, where she rose rapidly despite the lack of a college education. At 28, Margaret married Phillip Donald Weihs, a Lieutenant in the Air Force. They enjoyed 58 years of a happy and unusually close marriage, ending with his death in September 2010. While raising Kay, they had two additional children, Diana and Don. Our mother was a strong, intelligent, fiercely independent and deeply private woman, who was determined not to have us suffer the loss of two parents in one calendar year. She achieved that goal, despite advanced cardiac and renal disease. Her three children, her two brothers Bob Schmidt and Charles Schmidt, and six grandchildren- Paul and Steve Roeber, Virginia and Margaret Weihs, and Walker and Ming Tai, survive her. We would like to thank her kind and patient physicians, Tom Blevins, Michael Watkins, and Michael Pelligrini. We are also full of gratitude to Marlene Blaisdell, a hospice nurse at Robinson Creek, who nurtured us, as well as our dad through his two-year illness and our mother through this past year. Internment at Fort Sam Houston with our dad is planned for a later date.
Published by Austin American-Statesman on Sep. 20, 2011.
Published by Austin American-Statesman on Sep. 20, 2011.
Inscription
Always In
Our Hearts
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
See more Duke Weihs or Schmidt memorials in:
- Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Duke Weihs or Schmidt
- San Antonio Duke Weihs or Schmidt
- Bexar County Duke Weihs or Schmidt
- Texas Duke Weihs or Schmidt
- USA Duke Weihs or Schmidt
- Find a Grave Duke Weihs or Schmidt
Advertisement
