Linda Kay Weaver

LINDA KAY WEAVER April 9, 1941 - April 19, 2015 Linda Kay Anderson was born April 9, 1941 to Lawrence “Bud” Anderson and Rosemary Neal of Tacoma, Washington. In 1959 she gradated from Lincoln High School in Tacoma, and two months later married James “Jim” Adamson, a sergeant in the US Air Force. Linda enjoyed the years the Air Force stationed them and their children, Dana and Jeff, in Florida, Montana and Texas. Eventually they returned to Tacoma and later divorced. In 1969 Linda met Richard “Dick” Weaver just before he job transferred with Standard Insurance Company to Portland, Oregon. A few years later Linda and her children moved to Lake Oswego, Oregon to be near Dick and his children, Kristin, Scott, Jon and Libby. They married in 1974 and began renovating a 50 year old home on Lake Oswego where they enjoyed many years of water sports and entertaining from their front yard. Linda worked in the dental field. She retired after a long career with Dr. John Hanna, a pediatric dentist located on Lakewood Bay in Lake Oswego. She loved the kids and commuting to work by boat. In fact, she and her family did everything they could by boat…grocery shopping, movies, restaurants and visiting friends. Linda volunteered with Boys and Girls Aid Society, her children’s schools and in her community. She loved the several year long foreign exchange students they hosted through Portland Rotary. In 1996 Linda fulfilled a lifetime dream traveling with World Vision to Mauritania, Africa. She loved their family’s annual caravan car trip with neighborhood families to Palm Springs, CA and trips to Europe, China, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and places their children lived. For thirty years they drove to as many Oregon State Beaver games possible in their first new car, an orange and black ’74 Super Beetle convertible. Linda’s favorite things in life were simple. Caring for people, keeping a tidy home, trying new recipes and welcoming whoever showed up. Linda adored her husband, kids, grandchildren, friends, animals, making picnics for road trips, tailgaters and ski days. She also loved sewing, knitting, gardening, brushing and flossing her teeth, sunbathing, raincoats and umbrellas, dancing with her husband, reading, movies, music and laughing. Her sense of humor, curiosity, honest laugh and bright smile never once faded even though her memory did shortly after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at age 65, sixteen years after her husband’s diagnosis of Parkinson’s. Never once did the two complain of their diseases. They just took it all in stride, laughed harder, especially at themselves, and enjoyed life and each other more, and more. When her husband Dick passed away in 2014 rather than remind Linda of such sad news she was instead told he was golfing. Believing her husband was happy and waiting for her on the 19th hole kept her happy to the end. On April 19, 2015, Linda peacefully passed away, with family by her side, at her home in The Springs at Wilsonville. In addition to her late husband, proceeding her in death are her father, and grand-daughter, Kathleen “Kate” Weaver. Linda is survived by her mother, and brother Lawrence “Larry” Anderson (Ladd Wickstrom) of Tacoma. Her surviving children are Dana Adamson-Berry of Aurora, OR., Jeffrey “Jeff” Adamson of Seattle, WA., Kristin Bos (Scott) of Denver, CO., Scott Weaver (Diane Ramirez) of Mukilteo, WA., Jonathan “Jon” Weaver (Cynda Hagan) of Portland, OR., and Elizabeth “Libby” Weaver (John Papillion) of Denver, CO., and 12 grandchildren. Linda’s family wishes to thank The Springs at Wilsonville for the wonderful care they provided for their parents for many years. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the Alzheimer’s Association, Serenity Hospice or visiting someone in a care facility. A private Celebration of Life is being held on the Oregon Coast in July. For more information please contact dbwrites@me.com or www.cornwellcolonial.com

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Linda Kay Weaver

April 9, 1941 - April 19, 2015