Helen J. Weigand

Funeral services for Helen J. Weigand will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, December 22, 2007, at the First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Judith Pistole officiating. Interment will be in the Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Helen J. Weigand, daughter of the late Charles Dennis and Maude E. (Wilkinson) Wesner, was born August 10, 1912, at Novinger, Missouri, and passed away December 18, 2007 at Share Medical Center in Alva, Oklahoma, at the age of 95 years, 4 months, and 8 days. Her family moved to North Dakota when she was an infant. At age 6, her mother moved to Alva due to her father???s enlisting in World War I. After she graduated from Alva High School she received her Bachelor???s and Master???s Degree from Northwestern State College. On February 25, 1934, she was united in marriage to Carl Weigand. She taught music a total of 21 years in Dacoma, Lamont, and Alva. She directed the Baptist Choir and then the Presbyterian Choir for many years, and led the community choir for 6 years. She was a member of the Alva Presbyterian Church and the Woods County Retired Educators Association. In 1965, she was selected as Alva Mother of the Year. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Carl, in 1993, and her daughter, Anita Beth in 1953. Helen is survived by two sons, Carl Warren Weigand and his wife, LaDonna, of Alva, and Dennis Weigand and his wife, Janet, of Edmond; two daughters, Linda Marie Bath and her husband, David, of Loveland, Colorado, and Janice Yvonne Rauh of Norman; two sisters, Sylvia Love and her husband, Bob, of Lincoln, Montana, and Jean Cox of Alva. Also surviving are 11 grandchildren, Marsha Trammel and her husband, Joe, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Michael Weigand and his wife, Coleen, of Ft. Collins, Colorado, Michelle Nelson and her husband, Kip, of Enid, Chris Weigand and his wife, Yoshiko, of Iijima, Nagano, Japan, Becky Duncan and her husband, Ron, of Lewisville, Texas, Lisa Schopfer, and her husband, Cody, of Ft. Collins, Colorado, Laura Ahlmquist and her husband, Jayde, of Brighton, Colorado, Heather Forgey of Edmond, Sarah Rauh of Billings, Montana, Travis Rauh of Townsend, Montana, and Josh Rauh of Olathe, Kansas; 14 great grandchildren; 3 great great grandchildren; other relatives and many friends. Memorial contributions may be made through the funeral home to the Presbyterian Church Choir.

Helen J. Weigand

August 10, 1912 - December 18, 2007